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461) When heroes flew
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For B-24 bomber pilot Al Lycoming, the mission was history in the making. For Women's Airforce Service Pilot Vivian Wright, it was a chance to put her skills to the ultimate test ... and share in the burden of combat. Dispatched to Benghazi on mysterious orders, Al Lycoming finds nearly 200 other B-24 bombers being assembled ... and a top secret assignment that will catapult them all into seemingly impenetrable Nazi defenses. Their mission: a daring...
463) By fire above
Author
Series
Signal airship volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"All's fair in love and war," according to airship captain Josette Dupre, until her hometown of Durum becomes occupied by the enemy and her mother a prisoner of war. Then it becomes, "Nothing's fair except bombing those Vins to high hell." Before she can rescue her town, however, Josette must maneuver her way through the nest of overstuffed vipers that make up Garnia's military and royal leaders in order to drum up support. The foppish and mostly...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
450 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Trapped in Tuscany as war rages along the Gothic Line, Vittoria Guidi doesn't understand where her allegiances should lie. With her Scots-Italian father or Fascist mother? With Mussolini, or her King? With the life she wants, or is told to live? As Germans occupy the mountains surrounding Barga and American Buffalo soldiers draw near, loyalties are tested and families torn apart. Frank Chapel, a young, black soldier fighting for a country that refuses...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
432 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twins Viktor and Nadya are twelve years old when Hitler's Germany declares war on the Soviet Union. With little notice, the city's children are evacuated on trains that are meant to take them to safety. Shockingly, Viktor and Nadya are separated, and disaster befalls them both. As the terrible conflict rages, each embarks on a desperate race across snow and ice, struggling through the destruction in an effort to be reunited . . ."--Publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Daniel befriends Josef Gerlach, he has a feeling the old man is keeping something from him, and sure enough when Josef gives him his teenage diary to read, Daniel discovers a shocking story of rebellion and struggle. It tells how Gerlach left the Hitler Youth at the age of 14 and instead joined a gang called the Edelweiss Pirates. Their uniform: long hair and cool clothes. Their motto: freedom! At first the Edelweiss Pirates...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 382 pages : maps, illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A World War II novel about a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies"--
"Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies, Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When hostile soldiers invade a neighboring city, Pasha, a thirty-five-year-old Ukrainian language teacher, sets out for the orphanage where his nephew Sasha lives, now in occupied territory. Venturing into combat zones, traversing shifting borders, and forging uneasy alliances along the way, Pasha realizes where his true loyalties lie in an increasingly desperate fight to rescue Sasha and bring him home."--Publisher.
469) A daring escape
Author
Series
London chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Danger Closes In, Who Will Save the Children? At the height of World War II, American Amity Mitchell is living a comfortable life abroad as a tutor in England. But that changes when an urgent telegram arrives from her brother, Andrew, summoning her to Prague. Andrew's efforts to help Jewish children escape Czechoslovakia have grown desperate as Nazi forces tighten their grip on the country. Amity knows she can't ignore God's call to join Andrew...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
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Description
Danko, Zirka, and Fabian live peacefully in the small town of Rondo, a magical and joyful place where even the flowers sing! Everything is perfect... until the fateful day that War arrives. Having never experienced War, the inhabitants don't know what to do. They try to talk to it and fight it, but nothing seems to stop the spread of War's destruction and darkness. Harnessing the power of light, community, and song, Danko, Zirka, and Fabian, along...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
773 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An epic historical novel that chronicles the birth and rise of fascism in Italy, witnessed through the eyes of its founder, the terrifyingly charismatic figure who would become one of the most notorious dictators of the twentieth century, Benito Mussolini"--
472) Lost boys
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1982 Iran, twelve-year-old Reza is more interested in music than war, but enlists in obedience to his devout mother and soon finds himself in a prison camp in Iraq.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (5 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
White eagles: Summer 1939. With Europe on the brink of war, eighteen-year-old Kristina Tomiak has been called up to join the White Eagles, Poland's valiant air force. When the Nazis reach the town where she is based, Kristina makes a daring escape, but she doesn't realise that she's carrying a stowaway in her plane. Will Kristina be able to navigate the most challenging flight of her life and reach safety amid the turmoil of war?
Firebird: Nastia...
474) La quinta ola
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
474 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them"--
"La quinta ola, de Rick Yancey, es una novela de narrativa fantástica de acción en la estela de Los juegos del hambre, Divergente u Olvidados, y con unos personajes igual de complejos que te atrapará hasta la última página. En el amanecer de la quinta ola, Cassie está huyendo por un tramo desolado...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this alternate history, Napoleon wins at Waterloo by unleashing a secret battlefield weapon--a legion of giant, carnivorous dinosaurs imported from the wilds of the Americas--and only fifteen-year-old Willem Verheyen stands in the way of the emperor's plan for world domination.
476) Stella
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1942, Friedrich, an even-keeled but unworldly young man, arrives in Berlin from bucolic Switzerland with dreams of becoming an artist. At a life drawing class, he is hypnotized by the beautiful model, Kristin, who soon becomes his energetic yet enigmatic guide to the bustling and cosmopolitan city, escorting him to underground jazz clubs where they drink cognac, dance, and kiss. The war feels far away to Friedrich, who falls in love with Kristin...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
384 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the period leading up to the War of 1812 from the perspective of brig commander Bliven Putnam, who disrupts British merchant shipping before an encounter with an old nemesis leads to a reunion.
"Commander Bliven Putnam faces the biggest military conflict between the United States and Britain since the Revolution in this high seas adventure by award-winning historian James L. Haley. At the onset of the War of 1812, the British control the...
478) Ramage: a novel
Author
Series
Lord Ramage novels volume 1
Pub. Date
1965.
Physical Desc
302 pages : map (on lining paper) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a British ship captain is killed in a naval battle of the Napoleonic War, Lieutenant Ramage is assigned the task of rescuing a British sympathizer, a beautiful Italian Marchesa.
479) The Paris notebook
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
595 pages (large print); 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"January 1939: When Katja Heinz secures a job as a typist at Doctor Viktor's clinic, she doesn't expect to be copying top secret medical records from a notebook. At the end of the first world war, Doctor Viktor treated soldiers for psychological disorders. One of the patients was none other than Adolf Hitler. . . The notes in his possession declare Hitler unfit for office - a secret that could destroy the Führer's reputation, and change the course...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It is the end of May 1940, the British government has put out a call for fishing boats to help rescue the British soldiers trapped at Dunkerque and Aiden is the son of a fisherman with access to his father's dory-- his parents forbid him to go, but Aiden has already lost one brother to the war, and his other brother is somewhere over there with the British Expeditionary Force; so despite his fear of the ocean, he and his best friend Sally set out...
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