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Author
Series
Daughters of Amana volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Language
English
Description
For many years, Ilsa Redlich has helped her parents run a hotel in South Amana, but as the United States enters the Great War, she can feel her world changing. The residents of the towns surrounding the Amana Colonies used to be accepting of their quiet, peaceful neighbors, but with anti-German sentiment running high, the Amana villages are now plagued by vandalism, threats, and insults. Things get even worse when Ilsa finds out her family won't be...
2) The Germans
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 575 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Details how the U.S. government embarked on a covert operation to recruit and employ Nazi scientists in the years following World War II in an effort to prevent their knowledge and expertise from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 393 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Focusing on a little-known event in American history that has long been kept quiet, a dramatic account exposes a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II where hundreds of prisoners were exchanged for other Americans behind enemy lines in Japan and Germany.
8) Double agent: the first hero of World War II and how the FBI outwitted and destroyed a Nazi spy ring
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
vii, 338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
9) Allies
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
322 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this...