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1) Going solo
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The children's author recounts his adventures as a young man working in East Africa for the Shell Company, living in the jungle, and later flying a fighter plane in World War II.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Battle of Dunkirk, in May/June 1940, is remembered as a stunning defeat, yet a major victory as well. The Nazis had beaten back the Allies and pushed them across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were daringly evacuated across the Channel. This moment of German aggression was used by Winston Churchill as a call to Franklin Roosevelt to enter the war. Now, historian Joshua...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxx, 384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"I am not a great or important personage, but this will be the diary of an ordinary person's life in war time. Though I may never live to read it again, perhaps it may not prove altogether uninteresting as a record of my life-- or rather the life of a girl in her youth, upon whom life has shone very brightly, who has had every opportunity of education, interest, travel and pleasure and excitement, and who at the beginning of this war found herself...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII"--Provided by publisher.
As German bombs rained over England during World War II, British parents by the thousands sent their children out of the country to avoid harm's way. In September 1940, passenger liner SS City of Benares set sail for Canada with one hundred children on board. When the warships escorting...
9) Naples '44
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1943, a young British officer, Norman Lewis, entered a war-torn Naples with the American Fifth Army. Lewis began writing in his notepad everything that happened to him during his one-year stay, observing the complex social cauldron of a city that contrived every day the most incredible ways of fighting to survive. These notes turned into his masterpiece, a memoir.
11) The last escaper
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
viii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Peter Tunstall's memoir of his days in the British Royal Air Force and as one of the most celebrated British POWs of World War II. Tunstall was an infamous tormentor of his German captors. Dubbed the "cooler king" on account of his long spells in solitary, he once dropped a water "bomb" directly in the lap of a high-ranking German officer. He also devised an ingenious method for smuggling coded messages back to London. But above all he was a highly...
14) The Great Escape
Language
English
Formats
Description
A high-security German P.O.W. camp in 1942 holds only known troublemakers and risk-takers, all of whom are determined to pull off the war's most daring escape.
19) Gardens of stone
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
September 1939, Nieppe, Northern France. 14-year-old Stephen is living with his family. Stephen and his friend Marcel collect souvenirs from strafed convoys and crashed Messerschmitts. They are arrested and imprisoned for sabotage and threatened with deportation or the firing squad. Upon his release, and still only 16, Stephen is recruited by the French Resistance. This is his story.
20) The great escape
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
xv, 264 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
An account of the escape of almost one hundred British prisoners of war from a German prison camp in 1944.
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