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20441) Last secrets of the Axis
Series
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2004].
Language
English
Description
Looks at Hitler's plan for Germany's conquest of Europe and the wealth of secret associations that helped him. Explores the historical confluence that led to the rise of German-Japanese cooperation in World War II. Discusses Karl Haushofer, a German geography professor, and his role from the origins of the Third Reich to the Nuremberg trials. Haushofer coined the term geopolitics and laid an intellectual rationale for a German-Japanese alliance and...
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This is the illustrated story of 23 soccer players who worked together to become World Cup champions and heroes to millions of men, women, boys, and girls across America and around the world. World Cup Women highlights Team USA's tournament experience and provides a glimpse into what shot them to the top . . . and what may keep them there a little longer."--
20443) Secrets of Sloane House
Author
Series
Chicago World's Fair mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
One woman's search for the truth of her sister's disappearance leads her to deceit and danger in 1893 Chicago. Rosalind Perry has left her family's rural farm in Wisconsin to work as a housemaid at Sloane House, one of the most elegant mansions in Gilded Age Chicago. But Rosalind is not there just to earn a living and support her family--she's at Sloane House determined to discover the truth about her sister's mysterious disappearance. Reid Armstrong...
20444) Ripples of battle: how wars of the past still determine how we fight, how we live, and how we think
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Investigates three key battles in Western history including the battle of Delium in 424 B.C., the battle of Shiloh during the Civil War, and the battle of Okinawa during World War II, discussing their impact on civilization.
20445) Potsdam station
Author
Series
John Russell series volume 4
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Trapped in Berlin in the darkest days of 1945, British journalist John Russell, his girlfriend, and his son struggle to survive as the Third Reich collapses around them.
20447) Imperfect garden
Author
Publisher
Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A mother and child garden their family vegetable patch for food and health through the seasons and come to appreciate home-made produce--with tips for family gardening and green living."--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
At the height of World War II, only a few days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill began an extraordinary visit, during which they made plans that would lead to the success of the Allied powers as well as to a continuing peace after the war ended.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
General Douglas MacArthur was one of America's greatest and most complex commanders, a warrior so tough and determined that he helped win World War II with a simple promise: "I shall return". Featuring rare footage and interviews with MacArthur's comrades, family, and friends, this compelling Biography program reveals the man who remains a hero to millions.
20450) Schindler's list
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army. At the same time he tries to stay solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant and negotiates business with a vicious Nazi commandant who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Courage to Dream plunges readers into the darkest time of human history--the Holocaust. This graphic novel explores one of the greatest atrocities in modern memory, delving into the core of what it means to face the extinction of everything and everyone you hold dear. Woven from Jewish folklore and cultural history, five interlocking narratives explore one common story--the tradition of resistance and uplift
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Los gemelos Julián y Joaquín Castro son fuerzas políticas, pero su viaje comenzó en la pequeña habitación que compartían con su abuelita en San Antonio, Texas. Desde chiquillos, aprendieron del activismo de su mama, quien quería darle una vida mejor a su familia a través del gobierno local. Su duro trabajo inspiró a los gemelos a que se involucraran en la política, y han estado trabajando al nivel local, estatal y nacional para hacer de...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps. When Jaozsef Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in1944, his life expectancy was forty-five minutes. This was how long it took for the half-dead prisoners to be sorted into groups, stripped, and sent to the gas chambers. He beat the odds and survived...
20455) Terror de estado
Author
Publisher
Salamandra Ediciones
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Después de un período tumultuoso en la política estadounidense, una nueva administración acaba de prestar juramento y, para sorpresa de todos, el presidente elige a un enemigo político para el puesto vital de Secretario de Estado. No hay amor perdido entre el Presidente de los Estados Unidos y Ellen Adams, su nueva Secretaria de Estado. Pero es un movimiento astuto por parte del presidente. Con este nombramiento, silencia a uno de sus más duros...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1941, Hitler ruled Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Britain was struggling to combat his powerful propaganda machine, crowing victory and smearing his enemies as liars and manipulators over his frequent radio speeches, blasted out on loudspeakers and into homes. British claims that Hitler was dangerous had little impact against this wave of disinformation. Except for the broadcasts of someone called Der Chef, a German who...
20457) Dead of night
Author
Series
Berlin wartime thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After the SS rules a doctor’s mysterious death a suicide, the man’s widow and Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke investigate while trying not to run afoul of the Gestapo.
20458) While Paris slept: a novel
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A story told from alternating perspectives follows the experiences of a traumatized survivor of the Nazi occupation in France and a Jewish woman in wartime Paris who entrusts her most precious possession to a stranger.
"Santa Cruz, 1953. The scar on Jean-Luc's face is a small price to pay for surviving the horrors of Nazi occupation in France. Now he has a new life in California, a family. He never expected the past to come knocking on his door....
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were unsurpassed in the Pacific War against Japan. Long accustomed to keeping her secrets close in service of the Allies, she waited fifty years to reveal the story of those dramatic and harrowing days to her own children.Florence was an unlikely warrior. She...
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