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"A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris. In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014, c2013
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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A novel of love and war that traces the life of one man--an Australian surgeon--from a prisoner-of-war camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway during World War II, up to the present--
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English
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On September 6, 1945, less than a month after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, George Weller, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter, became the first free Westerner to enter the devastated city. Going into hospitals and consulting doctors of the bomb's victims, he was the first to document its unprecedented medical effects. He also became the first to enter the Allied POW camps, which rivaled Nazi camps for cruelty and bested them for
...5) Wait for me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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In 1945, Lorna risks everything for love when she begins to fall for Paul, the German POW sent to work on her father's farm.
6) Take me home
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Miller's Creek, Wisconsin, 1945. Olivia Marsten never imagined she'd be a war bride. But when her childhood best friend surprises her with a marriage proposal before he leaves to serve with the Navy, she reluctantly accepts...even though her heart belongs to someone else. Sparks fly the moment mysterious stranger Peter Becker lays eyes on Olivia. But Peter harbors a dark secret. The son of an American soldier, he was forced to join the Reich's...
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Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 61 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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During the height of World War II, a German prisoner escapes from a ship and disguises himself as a British soldier. When he attempts to break a group of Nazi soldiers out of the local POW camp, its up to Sergeant Terry Hunter and the townspeople to stop him.
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English
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"In this epistolary novel from the WWII home front, Johanna Berglund is forced to return to her small Midwestern town to become a translator at a German prisoner of war camp. There, amid old secrets and prejudice, she finds that the POWs have hidden depths. When the lines between compassion and treason are blurred, she must decide where her heart truly lies"--|cProvided by publisher.
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English
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After being bombed and shipwrecked repeatedly while serving for several wild and war-torn years as a mascot of the World War II Royal Navy Yangtze river gunboats the Gnat and the Grasshopper, Judy ended up in Japanese prisoner of war camps in North Sumatra. Along with locals as slave labor, the American, Australian, and British POWs were forced to build a 1,200-mile single-track railroad through the most horrifying jungles and treacherous mountain...
10) The railway man
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The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Based on an autobiography, this film tells the true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Accompanied by his best friend, Lomax returns to the scene...
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Texas Tech University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
147 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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"The story of Watson Mithlo, Chiricahua Apache, narrated in three voices; chronicles how the Chiricahua were relocated from Arizona to Florida to Alabama and finally to Fort Sill, Oklahoma"--
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Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
2014
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275 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Favorite sons in small-town Kentucky join the National Guard in order to avoid being sent to combat in Vietnam. They are sent anyway, and are part of the casualties who are delivered back to their hometown along with POW Lieutenant Harlan O'Brien. But the overwhelming grief, even as one hero is being celebrated, cripples the town's faith and gives more impact to the way war divides and alienates a society.
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English
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In September 1979, at age fifty-six, writer and artist Arturo Benvenuti fueled up his motor home and set forth on what he knew would be an emotional journey. His plan-his own Viae Crucis-was to meet with as many former prisoners of Nazi-fascist concentration camps as he could. He wanted not only to learn their stories, but to learn from their stories.
He met with dozens of survivors from Auschwitz, Terezín, Mauthausen-Gusen, Buchenwald, Dachau,...
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Sunwood Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
130 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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Hershey is the heart warming illustrated story of a true American, the son of Japanese immigrants, who served his country proudly despite the discrimination against Japanese Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. -- Back cover.
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English
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Between February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 of them died. Most contemporary accounts placed the blame for the tragedy squarely on the shoulders of the Confederates who administered the prison or on a conspiracy of higher-ranking officials. According to William Marvel, virulent disease and severe shortages of vegetables, medical supplies, and other...
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English
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"In spring 1918, Lieutenant Colin Mabry, a British soldier working with MI8 after suffering injuries on the front, receives a message by carrier pigeon. It is from Jewel Reyer, the woman he once loved and who saved his life--a woman he believed to be dead. Traveling to France to answer her urgent summons, he desperately hopes this mission will ease his guilt and restore the courage he lost on the battlefield. Colin is stunned, however, to discover...
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2021.
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English
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"The incredible true story of fighter pilot Joe Moser's war in the sky and secret survival at Buchenwald during World War II. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his 44th combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 150 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just...
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