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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Saving Private Ryan and Bridge Over the River Kwai, bestselling author James D. Shipman delivers a powerful, action-packed novel that illustrates the long-buried secrets and unending costs of war -- based on the true story of General Patton's clandestine unauthorized raid on a World War II POW camp. March, 1945. Allied forces are battle-worn but wearily optimistic. Russia's Red Army is advancing hard on Germany from the east,...
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
[1951]
Physical Desc
263 p. : illus. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred men for every hour, every day, and every night for more than a year. With only their bare hands and crude homemade tools, they sank shafts, built underground railroads, forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons, and tailored German clothes. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
519 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by a true story, a daring deception plunges a courageous and desperate young woman deep into the horrors of a Nazi POW camp to be with the man she loves. Czechoslovakia, 1944 In the dead of night a farm girl and a British soldier creep through abandoned villages. Izabela and prisoner-of-war Bill have secretly married, and are on the run, searching for Izabela's brother and father, who are fighting the Nazis. The husband and wife have evaded...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xvii, 348 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Near the end of the Civil War, inhumane conditions at Andersonville Prison caused the deaths of 13,000 Union soldiers in only one year. In this gripping and affecting novel, three young Confederates and an entire town come face-to-face with the prison's atrocities and will learn the cost of compassion, when withheld and when given. Sentry Dance Pickett has watched, helpless, for months as conditions in the camp worsen by the day. He knows any mercy...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of eight American airmen who were shot down over Chichi Jima during World War II, one of whom was rescued and later became president of the United States, and the other seven who were captured by Japanese troops.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles Churchill's life at the time of the Boer War when he was captured and taken prisoner. He pulled off a daring escape, after which he enlisted and then went back to liberate the others that had been captured with him. Millard presents an epic story of bravery, savagery and chance encounters with historical characters such as Rudyard Kipling and Mohandas Ghandi that would shape Churchill's future.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
775 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The epic true story of an American hero who flew during WWII, soon to be featured in the upcoming Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks TV Series, Masters of the Air. Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile skies over occupied Europe. The final price was staggering. 4,300 B-17s and B-24s failed to return; nearly 21,000 men were taken prisoner or interned in a neutral country, and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Helene Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional sectors, trekked...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp, and one day, a Turkish officer approaches Jones with a...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 419 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo's midnight roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England via the Kindertransport train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. Peter's story was no isolated incident. During Hitler's rise to...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
205 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing on an astonishing archive of letters, which revealed life during wartime, a true story follows a beautiful, young Dutch resistance fighter and underground war hero who spent two years in three concentration camps during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the daring mission of the elite U.S. Army Sixth Ranger Battalion to slip behind enemy lines in the Philippines and rescue the 513 American and British POWs who had spent over three years in a hellish, Japanese-run camp near Cabanatuan.