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82) We die alone
Author
Publisher
Adventure Library
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
We Die Alone recounts one of the most exciting escape stories to emerge from the challenges and miseries of World War II. In March 1943, a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from northern England for Nazi-occupied arctic Norway to organize and supply the Norwegian resistance. But they were betrayed and the Nazis ambushed them. Only one man survived--Jan Baalsrud. This is the incredible and gripping story of his escape. Frostbitten and snowblind,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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On a May afternoon in 1943, an American military plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary sagas of the Second World War. The lieutenant’s name was...
86) Out of Gitmo
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The dramatic story of a Gitmo detainee released from the controversial US prison after fourteen years.
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Autobiography addressing the author's childhood experience of inner spiritual vision after becoming blind as a boy, his forming a boys' resistance group in occupied Paris at age seventeen (which later merged with Défense de la France), and his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp"--
88) We were each other's prisoners: an oral history of World War II American and German prisoners of war
Author
Publisher
BasicBooks
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend. But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape....
90) Days of infamy
Author
Series
Days of infamy series volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of a Vietnam War POW, from his training to become a jet pilot, at the age of eighteen and the mission during which he was shot down and captured through his harrowing six-year incarceration within the "Hanoi Hilton."
For middle-grade readers, the true story of a pilot in the U.S. Air Force who received the Medal of Honor for his great acts of aerial valor. Lieutenant Colonel Leo K. Thorsness was a Wild Weasel pilot in the Vietnam...
Author
Series
Pine Ridge portraits volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
97) Rose under fire
Author
Series
Code name Verity volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbr�uck, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.
"Don't miss Elizabeth Wein's stunning new novel, Stateless While flying an Allied fighter plane from Paris to England, American ATA pilot and amateur poet, Rose Justice, is captured by the Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Helene Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional sectors, trekked...
99) Born survivors: three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Among the millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each pass through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to one another, they are newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women are privately determined to hold on to all they have left: their lives and those of their unborn babies....
100) Life behind barbed wire: the secret World War II photographs of prisoner of war Angelo M. Spinelli
Author
Series
World War II the global human and ethical dimension volume no. 2
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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