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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.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 648 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With a paranoid president facing investigation and the country tearing itself apart, Carrie and Saul must determine who they can trust in the gripping seventh season. As President Keane finds herself under threat from forces outside the government and within, Carrie embarks on a mission to unravel the truth and bring down a harrowing conspiracy.
24) A train in winter: an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
Author
Language
English
Description
In January 1943, the Gestapo hunted down 230 women of the French Resistance and sent them to Auschwitz. This is their story, told in full for the first time--a searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror, courage, defiance, survival, and the power of friendship to transcend evil that is an essential addition to the history of World War II.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Carrie Mathison, a brilliant but volatile CIA agent, suspects that a rescued American POW may not be what he seems. Is Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody a war hero or an Al Qaeda sleeper agent plotting a spectacular terrorist attack on U.S. soil? Following her instincts, Mathison will risk everything to uncover the truth - her reputation, her career, and even her sanity.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
4 digital videodiscs (616 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As Carrie and Saul search for the truth behind the bombing of CIA headquarters, lines are blurred between friend and foe and no one can be trusted. While hiding a stunning secret of her own, Carrie helps recruit Brody for a dangerous mission that could offer him a chance at redemption. But when the plan unravels and Brody is targeted deep inside Iran, he must put his life in Carrie's hands, leading to one of the most suspenseful and shocking season...
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
Publisher
HighBridge Company
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
8 CDs (10 1/4 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Albert Richardson and Junius Browne, two correspondents for the 'New York Tribune,' were captured at the Battle of Vicksburg and spent twenty months in horrific prisons before escaping and making their way to Union territory. A marvelous, surreal voyage through the cold mountains, dark prisons, and mysterious bands of misfits living in the shadows of the Civil War.
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...
32) The Jersey brothers: a missing naval officer in the Pacific and his family's quest to bring him home
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 588 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the extraordinary story of three brothers in World War II, describing the rescue mission launched by the elder two when their youngest brother was declared missing in action in the Philippines.
Author
Publisher
TwoDot
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xv, 162 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Colorado Territory in 1864 wasn't merely the wild west, it was a land in limbo while the Civil War raged in the east and politics swirled around its potential admission to the union. The territorial governor, John Evans, had ambitions on the national stage should statehood occur, and he was joined in those ambitions by a local pastor and erstwhile Colonel in the Colorado militia, John Chivington. The decision was made to take a hardline stance against...
Author
Language
English
Formats
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...
35) Rescue
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Nearly two years ago, Meg Kenyon's father left their home in France to fight for the Allies in World War II. Recently Meg heard he had been taken prisoner by the Nazis. All Meg has left of him now are the codes he placed in a jar for her to decipher, an affectionate game the two of them once shared. But even those are running low.
Suddenly, an impossible chance to save her father falls into Meg's lap when she finds an injured British spy hiding in...
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.