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Brave Men, Gentle Heroes - American Fathers and Sons in World War II and Vietnam - Bok av Michael Takiff - Häftad

Brave Men, Gentle Heroes - American Fathers and Sons in World War II and Vietnam - Bok av Michael Takiff - Häftad

Brave Men, Gentle Heroes presents the honest, touching, and harrowing stories of men who served in World War II and of their sons who served in Vietnam -- fathers and sons bonded as deeply by their experience in war as by blood.Though World War II and Vietnam were vastly different -- the clear aims of World War II, the muddled goals of Vietnam; the hero's welcome accorded World War II veterans, the scorn heaped upon their sons -- each defined a generation. In these pages you will find war's carnage..

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The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Vol. II - Bok av Diana Wynne Jones - Häftad

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Vol. II - Bok av Diana Wynne Jones - Häftad

?Always perfectly magical.? ?Neil Gaiman A timeless classic with brand-new cover art! Diana Wynne Jones's bestselling, magical, and funny Chrestomanci novels will enchant fans of Soman Chainani, Rick Riordan, and Chris Colfer. Volume II contains The Magicians of Caprona and Witch Week.In the Magicians of Caprona, the two warring families of Caprona, the Montanas and the Petrocchis, must join forces to keep the White Devil from invading their city. Even Chrestomanci becomes involved when two of the..

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X Troop - The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II - Bok av Leah Garrett - Inbunden

X Troop - The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II - Bok av Leah Garrett - Inbunden

WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE MONTH \This is the incredible World War II saga of the German-Jewish commandos who fought in Britain’s most secretive special-forces unit—but whose story has gone untold until now.\ —Wall Street Journal“Brilliantly researched, utterly gripping history: the first full account of a remarkable group of Jewish refugees—a top-secret band of brothers—who waged war on Hitler.”—Alex Kershaw, New York Times best-selling..

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The French Gift - A Novel of World War II Paris - Bok av Kirsty Manning - Häftad

The French Gift - A Novel of World War II Paris - Bok av Kirsty Manning - Häftad

From Kirsty Manning, author of The Song of the Jade Lily, comes a gripping World War II set historical novel about murder, secrets, and survival. A forgotten manuscript that threatens to unravel the past... Fresne Prison, 1940: A former maid at a luxury villa on the Riviera, Margot Bisset finds herself in a prison cell with writer and French Resistance fighter Joséphine Murant. Together, they are transferred to a work camp in Germany for four years, where the secrets they share will bind them for..

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The French Gift - A Novel of World War II Paris - Bok av Kirsty Manning - Inbunden

The French Gift - A Novel of World War II Paris - Bok av Kirsty Manning - Inbunden

From Kirsty Manning, author of The Song of the Jade Lily, comes a gripping World War II set historical novel about murder, secrets, and survival. A forgotten manuscript that threatens to unravel the past... Fresne Prison, 1940: A former maid at a luxury villa on the Riviera, Margot Bisset finds herself in a prison cell with writer and French Resistance fighter Joséphine Murant. Together, they are transferred to a work camp in Germany for four years, where the secrets they share will bind them for..

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Angels of the Pacific - A Novel of World War II - Bok av Elise Hooper - Inbunden

Angels of the Pacific - A Novel of World War II - Bok av Elise Hooper - Inbunden

\Absolutely riveting. A stay-up-all night read about two very different women who discover just how strong they can be?and just how much they'll dare?during the brutal Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II. This story of endurance and sisterhood will have you turning pages late into the night.\ ?Lauren Willig, New York Times bestselling authorIf you loved Beantown Girls by Jane Healey and Hazel Gaynor's When We Were Young & Brave, then you won't want to miss critically acclaimed..

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Stolen Lady - A Novel of World War II and the Mona Lisa - Bok av Laura Morelli - Häftad

Stolen Lady - A Novel of World War II and the Mona Lisa - Bok av Laura Morelli - Häftad

From the acclaimed author of The Night Portrait comes a stunning historical novel about two women, separated by five hundred years, who each hide Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa?with unintended consequences.France, 1939 At the dawn of World War II, Anne Guichard, a young archivist employed at the Louvre, arrives home to find her brother missing. While she works to discover his whereabouts, refugees begin flooding into Paris and German artillery fire rattles the city. Once they reach the city, the Nazis..

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Metal Heart - A Novel of Love and Valor in World War II - Bok av Caroline Lea - Häftad

Metal Heart - A Novel of Love and Valor in World War II - Bok av Caroline Lea - Häftad

?The story of true innocents caught up in the machinery of war. Exquisitely researched, beautifully told, this tiny corner of Scotland came alive for me in all of my senses and I found myself rooting for the central characters with all my heart.? ?Mary Beth Keane, author of Ask Again, YesIn the dark days of World War II, an unlikely romance blossoms between a Scottish woman and an Italian prisoner of war in this haunting novel with the emotional complexity of The Boat Runner and All the Light We..

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Freedom Line - The Brave Men and Women Who Rescued Allied Airmen from the Nazis During World War II - Bok av Peter Eisner - Häftad

Freedom Line - The Brave Men and Women Who Rescued Allied Airmen from the Nazis During World War II - Bok av Peter Eisner - Häftad

Compared to Casablanca by the Washington Post, this a page-turning story of a group of resistance workers who secreted downed Allied fighter pilots through France and into safety in Spain during World War II. As war raged against Hitler's Germany, an increasing number of Allied fliers were shot down on missions against Nazi targets in occupied Europe. Many fliers parachuted safely behind enemy lines only to find themselves stranded and hunted down by the Gestapo. The Freedom Line traces the thrilling..

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Murder Most Royal - Bok av SJ Bennett - Häftad

Murder Most Royal - Bok av SJ Bennett - Häftad

Evidence that an aristocrat has gone missing?and was possibly murdered?near Sandringham House sets Queen Elizabeth II on the path to discover unsavory family secrets and much more in this new installment of the series the New York Times Book Review calls ?sheer entertainment.?Queen Elizabeth II is looking forward to a traditional Christmas gathering with her family in Sandringham when a shocking discovery interrupts holiday plans. A severed hand has been found?but even more unsettling, she recognizes..

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The Story Hub - ii - Bok av The Michaelites - Häftad

The Story Hub - ii - Bok av The Michaelites - Häftad

THE STORY HUB An exceptional and thought-provoking work of fiction This book contains a handful of stories, that reveal the essence of life. There are various topics to thrill the reader and compel the audience to give serious thought to the framed scenarios. This S-A-R-O press publication is the outcome of diligent work done by skilled authors. As quoted by Rick Warren, \\Passion drives perfection\\, the youngsters surely seized the perfect opportunity, to follow their passion, share their stories..

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God's Choice - Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church - Bok av George Weigel - Häftad

God's Choice - Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church - Bok av George Weigel - Häftad

George Weigel's bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, set the standard by which all portraits of the modern papacy are now measured. With God's Choice, he gives us an extraordinary chronicle of the rise of Pope Benedict XVI as well as an unflinching view of the Catholic Church at the dawn of a new era.When John Paul II lapsed into illness for the last time, people flocked from all over the world to pray outside his apartment. He had become a father figure to millions in a world..

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12 Seconds Of Silence - How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon - Bok av Jamie Holmes - Häftad

12 Seconds Of Silence - How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon - Bok av Jamie Holmes - Häftad

The riveting story of the American scientists, tinkerers, and nerds who solved one of the biggest puzzles of World War II-and developed one of the most powerful weapons of the war 12 Seconds of Silence is the remarkable, lost story of how a ragtag group of American scientists overcame one of the toughest problems of World War II: shooting things out of the sky. Working in a secretive organization known as Section T, a team of physicists, engineers, and everyday Joes and Janes took on a devilish..

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Last Comes The Raven - And Other Stories - Bok av Italo Calvino - Häftad

Last Comes The Raven - And Other Stories - Bok av Italo Calvino - Häftad

The first complete English-language edition of one of Calvino's important early short story collections Blending reality and illusion with elegance and precision, the stories in this collection-one of Calvino's earliest-take place in a World War II-era and postwar Italy tinged with the visionary and fablelike qualities that would come to define this master storyteller's later style. A trio of gluttonous burglars invade a pastry shop; two children trespass upon a forbidden garden; a wealthy family..

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The Sisters of Auschwitz - The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory - Bok av Roxane van Iperen - Häftad

The Sisters of Auschwitz - The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory - Bok av Roxane van Iperen - Häftad

A New York Times bestsellerThe unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of World War II: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper who joined the Dutch Resistance, helped save dozen of lives, were captured by the Nazis, and ultimately survived the Holocaust.Eight months after Germany's invasion of Poland, the Nazis roll into The Netherlands, expanding their reign of brutality to the Dutch. But by the Winter of 1943, resistance is growing. Among those fighting their brutal Nazi occupiers are two Jewish..

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King Leopold's Ghost - A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa - Bok av Adam Hochschild - Häftad

King Leopold's Ghost - A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa - Bok av Adam Hochschild - Häftad

\An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel.\ - Christian Science Monitor \As Hochschild's brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times . . . This book must be read and reread.\ - Los Angeles Times Book Review In the late nineteenth century, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium carried out a brutal plundering of the territory surrounding the Congo River. Ultimately slashing the area's population by..

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The Light of Days Young Readers' Edition - Bok av Judy Batalion - Häftad

The Light of Days Young Readers' Edition - Bok av Judy Batalion - Häftad

This young readers' edition of the blockbuster New York Times bestseller is the remarkable untold story of the young Jewish women who became resistance fighters against the Nazis during World War II. It has already been optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture.As their communities were being destroyed, groups of Jewish women and teenage girls across Poland began transforming Jewish youth groups into resistance factions. These ?ghetto girls? helped build systems of underground bunkers,..

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Sisters of Auschwitz - The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory - Bok av Roxane van Iperen - Häftad

Sisters of Auschwitz - The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory - Bok av Roxane van Iperen - Häftad

A New York Times bestsellerThe unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of World War II: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper who joined the Dutch Resistance, helped save dozen of lives, were captured by the Nazis, and ultimately survived the Holocaust.Eight months after Germany's invasion of Poland, the Nazis roll into The Netherlands, expanding their reign of brutality to the Dutch. But by the Winter of 1943, resistance is growing. Among those fighting their brutal Nazi occupiers are two Jewish..

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The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on - Bok av Franny Choi - Häftad

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on - Bok av Franny Choi - Häftad

\With lyric and tonal dexterity, these poems spin backwards and forwards in time -- from Korean comfort women during World War II, to the precipice of climate crisis, to children wandering a museum in the future. These poems explore narrative distances and queer linearity, investigating on microscopic scales before soaring towards the universal. As she wrestles with the daily griefs and distances of this apocalyptic world, Choi also imagines what togetherness -- between Black and Asian and other..

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Nazi Billionaires - Bok av David de Jong - Häftad

Nazi Billionaires - Bok av David de Jong - Häftad

?Meticulously researched ...compels us to confront the current-day legacy of these Nazi ties.? ?Wall Street JournalA groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II?and how America allowed them to get away with it.In 1946, Günther Quandt?patriarch of Germany's most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW?was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he had been forced to..

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The Light of Days - The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos - Bok av Judy Batalion - Häftad

The Light of Days - The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos - Bok av Judy Batalion - Häftad

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and Indie bestseller lists.One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters?a group of unknown heroes whose exploits have never been chronicled in full, until now.Witnesses..

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Hunters & Shooters - An Oral History of the U.S. Navy SEALs in Vietnam - Bok av Bill Fawcett - Häftad

Hunters & Shooters - An Oral History of the U.S. Navy SEALs in Vietnam - Bok av Bill Fawcett - Häftad

The U.S. Navy SEALs have long been considered among the finest, most courageous, and professional soldiers in American military history?an elite fighting force trained as parachutists, frogmen, demolition experts, and guerrilla warriors ready for sea, air, and land combat. Born out of a proud naval tradition dating back to World War II, the first SEAL teams were commissioned in the early 1960s. Vietnam was their proving ground.In this remarkable volume, fifteen former SEALs?most of them original..

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