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"“Angels of the Resistance brings to life a deadly-effective and deeply moving sisterhood.” —Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code From the bestselling author of The Flight Girls comes a story inspired by true events, about courageous women who risked everything for country, for family, and for each other. Netherlands, 1940 As bombs fall across Europe, fourteen-year-old Lien Vinke fears that the reality of war is...

"An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering in Hitler's and Stalin's camps, and the near-miraculous survival and rescue of the author's parents who met after the war. Daniel Finkelstein's grandfather Alfred Wiener was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of the impending Holocaust and became an archivist of Nazi...

A tough civilian construction man and a navy officer organize a work force to repair installations close to Japanese lines in World War II. The story of the formation of the U.S. Navy's construction corps--the Seabees.

German naval officer Karl Ehrlich loves his country and hates Hitler. As World War II erupts, Ehrlich defies orders and takes his freighter on a fox-and-hound pursuit from the Germans and the British.

With the fate of World War II in doubt and rumors of a Nazi assassination plot swirling, Franklin Roosevelt traveled in secret to Iran for a clandestine meeting that would change the course of history: the award-winning anchor of Special Report with Bret Baier reveals the gripping lost history of the Tehran Conference, where FDR, Churchill, and Stalin plotted D-Day and the Second World Wars endgame. November 1943: The Nazis and their Axis allies controlled...

In the last days of WWII, a band of Allied soldiers trafficking Hitler's remains out of Germany are ambushed by Nazi Wehrwolf fighters.

Set against the backdrop of World War II, this unforgettable novel, inspired by the true story of the Council of Books in Wartime, follows three women whose fates become intertwined by their belief in the power and goodness in the written word to triumphover the very darkest moments of war. "For fans of The Rose Code and The Paris Library, The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWII-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who...

It's World War II. Major Dan Kirby (John Wayne) is hard on his marines. His subordinate Captain Carl Griffin thinks the Major is overdoing it, but Kirby proves that there is a method to his madness after all.

Set in WWII, a squad of African American soldiers is sent on a rescue mission behind enemy lines to locate their lost commanding officer and a downed fighter pilot. Set in WWII, a squad of U.S. African American soldiers is sent on a rescue mission behind enemy lines to locate their lost commanding officer and a downed fighter pilot.

Traces the daring of Nazi hunters after World War II, revealing the contributions of legal experts, intelligence agents, and concentration camp survivors in tracking down and capturing high-profile Nazis. Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series. As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went...