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Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 3
Language
English
Description
In a Jewish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by the Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest. Max and Zena are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. But soon, bombs are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
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
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 9
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
148 pages, color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
With his French village under Nazi control, Paul Colbert joins a secret resistance after rescuing an American paratrooper and gets his chance to make a difference in the midst of the largest invasion in history, working to do his part in turning horror into hope.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
165 pages : chiefly color illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this thrilling historical adventure set during World War II, Steve Rogers (AKA Captain America) and his young sidekick, Bucky Barnes, encounter threat like none they've ever seen -- a Ghost Army. The dead of this war and wars past are coming back to life, impervious to bullets, flames, or anything else the Allies can throw at them. The armies rise from the ground in the night and seem to disappear without a trace. How can Cap and Buck fight something...
6) Dogs of war
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
194 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Three fictional stories, told in graphic novel format, about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs. Based on true stories.
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color illustrations) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A hero for the ages in a trio of war-torn tales! In "Operation: Zero Point," a squadron of anti-gravity Nazi aircraft rises from behind enemy lines! In "Prisoners of Duty," Steve Rogers is taken captive along with fellow infantrymen inside the forbidding walls of a Nazi-held castle. And in "America First!," the Commie-busting Cap of the 1950s uncovers a fifth-columnist plot that has its origins in the most unsuspecting of places! It's Cap action set...
8) Irmina
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
285 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1930s, Irmina, an ambitious young German, moves to London. At a cocktail party, she meets Howard Green, one of the first black students at Oxford, who, like Irmina, is working towards an independent existence. However, their relationship comes to an abrupt end when Irmina, constrained by the political situation in Hitler's Germany, is forced to return home. As war approaches and her contact with Howard is broken, it becomes clear to Irmina...
9) Resistance
Author
Series
Resistance trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
121 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
134 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Marianne is fortunate. She one of the first two hundred Jewish children on the heroic rescue operation known as the Kindertransport, which arrived in London, England in December, 1938. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939 Marianne finds herself being evacuated to Wales. She is shuffled from one unsuitable home to another, but there is a surprise in store and Marianne's courage and resilience is finally rewarded.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, a thirteen-year-old California boy who is half Japanese is sent to an internment camp. Story based on the history of the author's great-aunt.
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