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2) Black book
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
Nederlands
Description
A Jewish woman spying for the Dutch Resistance must determine whom to trust after being found out--and then protected--by the German captain she was assigned to seduce and then discovering that one of her Resistance comrades is a traitor.
Author
Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A Protestant pastor is a small French town risks his life to hide hundreds of Jewish refugees from the Nazis during World War II, and when an American pilot crashes into the town, his presence endangers the pastor, his family, and the fate of their village.
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Language
English
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"The New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis-until a secret from her past threatens everything"--
5) Red gold
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Series
Language
English
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As the German occupation of France tightens, Jean Casson finds himself hiding from the Gestapo and running guns to combat units of the French Communist party.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Featuring an exclusive excerpt from Kate Quinn's next incredible historical novel, THE HUNTRESS
NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLER
#1 GLOBE AND MAIL HISTORICAL FICTION BESTSELLER
One of NPR's Best Books of the Year!
One of Bookbub's Biggest Historical Fiction Books of the Year!
Reese Witherspoon
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Language
English
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Inspired by a true story, the bestselling author of In Country offers a gorgeous, haunting novel about an airline pilot coming to terms with his past, and searching for the people who saved him during World War II. After Marshall Stone's B-17 bomber was shot down in occupied Europe in 1944, people in the French Resistance helped him escape to safety. One of the brave French people who risked their lives for him was a lively girl in Paris-a girl identified...
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Language
English
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Costa Zannis, a senior police officer who deals with special political cases, tries to secure an escape route from Berlin to the Greek port city of Salonika and then into Turkey while the Nazis of World War II are busy conquering the rest of Europe in 1940, but his task is complicated by spies from the Turkish legation and the German secret service and Zannis becomes a target for the Gestapo.
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Language
English
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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"--
15) Resistance
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When American fighter pilot Ted is shot down on a reconnaissance mission over occupied Belgium, local underground members hide him in a secret room belonging to a resistance leader and his wife. As she nurses the injured pilot back to health, the two slowly fall in love, But when the affair is uncovered, a shocking act of betrayal threatens them and the resistance movement, forcing the officer to make a choice that will change their lives - and the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation. When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America faced a crisis. The new nation was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North Africa's Barbary coast routinely captured American sailors...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
It is the year 1935: after being released from a concentration camp, Arnold remains working for the resistance movement in Hamburg. He has mixed feelings about his new contact agent; he almost envies the man's self-confidence, but cannot help mistrusting him. And this time, when casualties are heavy, only Walter emerges unscathed. Is he an informer? Based on Willi Bredel's book of the same name.
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Austria, 1938. Kristoff is a young apprentice to a master Jewish stamp engraver. When his teacher disappears during Kristallnacht, Kristoff is forced to engrave stamps for the Germans, and simultaneously works alongside Elena, his beloved teacher's fiery daughter, and with the Austrian resistance to send underground messages and forge papers. As he falls for Elena amidst the brutal chaos of war, Kristoff must find a way to save her, and himself. Los...
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Language
English
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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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