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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
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Featuring an exclusive excerpt from Kate Quinn's next incredible historical novel, THE HUNTRESS
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"Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancae was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind"--
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"A Photojournalist Risks Her Life to Save a Very Special Child Full of intrigue, adventure, and romance, this series celebrates the unsung heroes -- the heroines of WWII. Journalist Nellie Wilkerson has spent the bulk of the war in London, photographing mothers standing in milk lines -- and she's bored. She jumps at the chance to go to France, where the Allied forces recently landed. There she enlists Jean-Paul Breslau of the French underground to...
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"Wealthy, beautiful Naně was born with a spirit of adventure. For her, learning to fly is freedom. When German tanks roll across the border and into Paris, this woman with an adorable dog and a generous heart joins the resistance. Known as the Postmistress because she delivers information to those in hiding, Naně uses her charms and skill to house the hunted and deliver them to safety. Photographer Edouard Moss has escaped Germany with his young...
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The History Press
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[2011]
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English
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Vallo Castle, German-occupied Denmark, 1943: Jews are being smuggled out of the country on fishing vessels bound for Sweden before Nazi search teams can find them. Gunter Herz, an Austrian-Jewish refugee drafted into the British SOE for 'special duties' is parachuted in, tasked with locating a missing British agent being hidden by Danish resistance. On finding the agent, they are to infiltrate a German U-boat on its way to Ireland, carrying secret...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
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[2017]
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English
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They thought Rosie Ewing was dead. They were wrong ... At the London headquarters of 'F' Section SOE (Special Operations Executive) they're sure Rosie Ewing is dead - shot by the Gestapo when running from a train taking her to Ravensbrück concentration camp. But they can't be sure. Left for dead, Rosie has been nursed back to health at a farmhouse in Alsace. Now she has a score to settle, and an SOE traitor to track down. It's personal, as well as...
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Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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In wartime France an English SOE and a German Abwehr officer fall in love - with consequences neither could have foreseen...
I thought loving someone was simple. It isn't. Glorious, yes. Painful, yes. Unforgettable, yes. Simple, no. It took me the war to find out...
Evelyn St. John has been parachuted into France to link up with the Resistance and to work undercover. Paul von Hoch's brief, as a member of German Intelligence, is to track down...
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Pen & Sword Books
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[2012]
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English
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"This study of the Polish resistance movement chronicles the operations of various factions from WWII through the postwar battle for power. The Polish partisan army famously fought with tenacity against the Wehrmacht during World War II. Yet the wider story of the Polish underground movement, which opposed both the Nazi and Soviet occupying powers, has rarely been told. In this concise and authoritative study, historian David Williamson presents a...
9) Allies
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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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...
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Arcadia Publishing / Open Road Integrated Media
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[2009]
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English
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"A history of the bitter battles and skirmishes in the Ozark Region, including photos: "It's great to see a revised edition of this Civil War classic." -- Ozarks Mountaineer In this revised edition of Civil War in the Ozarks , Phillip W. Steele and Steve Cottrell provide new insight into the clashes that occurred in the Ozarks and additional commentary from experts. Explanations of the political and cultural conditions there at the time create a backdrop...
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Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Bushwhackers adds to the growing body of literature that examines the various irregular conflicts that took place during the American Civil War. Author Joseph M. Beilein Jr. looks at the ways in which several different bands of guerrillas across Missouri conducted their war in concert with their house- holds and their female kin who provided logistical support in many forms. Whether noted fighters like Frank James, William Clarke Quantrill, and "Bloody...
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Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Italy, 1943. Although allied with Hitler, there were those who refused to accept the fascist policies of racial discrimination and deportation. Among them was Gino Bartali. A champion cyclist, he won the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) three times and the Tour de France twice. But these weren't his only achievements. Deeply religious, Bartali never spoke about what he did during those dark years, when he agreed to work with the Resistance and pass...
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The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina who stashed explosives in spare tires, tracked Japanese troop movements, and smuggled maps of fortifications across enemy lines. As the Battle of Manila raged, Josefina Guerrero walked through gunfire to bandage wounds and close the eyes of the dead. Her valor earned her the Medal of Freedom, but what made her a good spy was also destroying her: leprosy, which so horrified the...
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"Inspired by Picasso's great masterpiece Guernica, New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards returns with a riveting story of intrigue, deception and bravery in the face of war... On an April day in 1937, the sky opens and fire rains down upon the small Spanish town of Guernica. Seventeen-year-old Sibi and her family are caught up in the horror. Griff, an American military attach�e, pulls Sibi from the wreckage, and it's only the first time...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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In 1933, the Admiralty banned "Blinker" Hall from publishing his autobiography, but here, for the first time, those chapters that survived are presented in full. See what the renowned spymaster had to say about the British Naval Intelligence -- the pinnacle of the world's secret intelligence services. He explores the function of secret intelligence in wartime, censorship, subterfuge, the significance of Churchill in the Dardanelles campaign, the Zimmermann...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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July 1940 saw the collaborationist Vichy regime replace the French Republic after the country suffered heavily at the hands of the German onslaught during World War II. A small number of people sought to make a stand in whatever way they could, despite fear and mortal danger. From railway workers and couriers to guerrilla fighters and foreign agents, each played their part in destabilizing Marshal Pétain's poisonous regime. This book casts new light...
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Based on true accounts of how Parisiennes resisted the Nazi occupation in World War II--from fashion houses to the city streets--comes a story of two courageous women who risked everything to fight an evil they couldn't abide. Paris, 1939. Maison Chanel has closed, thrusting haute couture dressmaker Lila de Laurent out of the world of high fashion as Nazi soldiers invade the streets and the City of Lights slips into darkness. Lila's life is now a...
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Rosie volume 2
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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In this stunning adventure set in war-torn France-a British agent finds herself in Nazi territory-and unsure about who to trust . . .
It's the spring of 1944 and Rosie Ewing is returning to German-occupied France, by air, this time.
She's carrying a radio, half a million francs, a pistol, and two cyanide capsules to Finistere in north-west Brittany.
With D-Day looming, Rosie fears that the man who'll be meeting her on the ground tonight...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Poland was the "tripwire" that brought Britain into the Second World War, but neither Britain, nor Poland's older ally, France, had the material means to prevent Poland being overrun. The broadcast, "Poland is no longer alone" had a distinctly hollow ring. During the next four years the Polish Government in exile and armed forces made a significant contribution to the Allied war effort; in return the Polish Home Army received a paltry 600 tons of...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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SOE agent Violette Szabo was the daughter of an English father and French mother, and widow of a French army officer killed in action in North Africa in 1942. On her second mission she was captured by the Germans, interrogated and tortured, and deported to Germany, where she was eventually executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp. The bare bones of her story say nothing of the sabotage, gun battles, betrayal. Violette was the second woman ever...
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