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Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized version of the unprecedented escape from Stalag Luft III. A high-security German prisoner-of-war camp in 1942 holds only known troublemakers and risk-takers, all of whom are determined to pull off the war's most daring escape.
Author
Series
Language
Español
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Description
"Marie-Laure es una joven ciega que vive con su padre en Paris, donde �el trabaja como responsable de las mil cerraduras del Museo de Historia Natural. Cuando los nazis ocupan la capital, padre e hija deben huir a la ciudad amurallada de Saint-Malo, llev�andose con ellos la que podr�ia ser la m�as preciada y peligrosa joya del museo. Werner es un muchacho hu�erfano criado en un pueblo minero de Alemania y fascinado por la fabricaci�on...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
The account of a Dutch girl growing up in Nazi-occupied Holland and her family who helped hide Jewish people. The account of a Dutch girl growing up in Nazi-occupied Holland & her family who helped hide Jewish people. Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner."Oh, the poor woman," Corrie cried."Yes. May God forgive her," Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this book the author traces the story of the unsung World War II workers in Oak Ridge, Tennessee through interviews with dozens of surviving women and other Oak Ridge residents. This is the story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history. The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project's secret cities, it...
7) Hart's war
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Honor, courage, and sacrifice are revealed in unexpected ways as a ranking U.S. prisoner in a Nazi POW camp is joined in December 1944 by a law-student lieutenant who'd been captured despite his father's powerful military connections. When a black pilot from the famous Tuskeegee airmen is falsely accused of murdering a fellow prisoner, Lt. Hart tries his case and discovers the real motivation behind the ranking officer's kangaroo court.
8) Allied
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2017, �2016.
Language
English
Description
The story of intelligence officer Max Vatan, who in 1942 North Africa encounters French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Reunited in London, their relationship is threatened by the extreme pressures of the war.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Italy, 1944. As the war takes its toll on Allied forces in Europe, a squadron of black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky, even as they battle discrimination on the ground. Featuring jaw-dropping aerial action and thrilling special effects, Red Tails is a breathtaking tribute to the unsung heroes who rose above extraordinary challenges and ultimately soared into history.
11) El ruise�nor
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Francia, 1939. En el tranquilo pueblo de Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac se despide de su marido, Antoine, que debe marchar al frente. Ella no cree que los nazis vayan a invadir Francia, pero lo hacen, con batallones de soldados marchando por las calles, con caravanas de camiones y tanques, con aviones que llenan los cielos y lanzan bombas sobre los inocentes. Cuando un capit�an alem�an requisa la casa de Vianne, ella y su hija deben convivir con el...
12) Casablanca
Language
English
Description
Entering Casablanca is easy, getting out is much harder, especially if your name is on the Nazis' most-wanted list. At the top of the list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, whose only hope is Rick Blaine, a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one - especially Victor's wife Ilsa, the ex-lover who broke his heart. So when Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's safe transport out of the country, the bitter Rick must decide what's...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph...
14) Dunkirk
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold. The evacuation was aided by civilians who traversed the English Channel in order to collect the soldiers stranded on the beach.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Español
Description
After the German occupation, Warsaw is a city in ruins, inhabited by people who have lost almost everything. And now, under Russian rule, they have to make some sense of their own existence. They cannot think ahead to a possible future. First they must survive, and perhaps even find beauty hidden in the ruins.
Tras la ocupaci�on alemana, Varsovia es un ciudad en ruinas, habitada por personas que casi lo perdieron todo y ahora, bajo el yugo rojo,...
Author
Series
Letras de bolsillo volume 80
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
Español
Description
Bruno tiene nueve a�nos y desconoce el significado del Holocausto. Todo lo que sabe es que su padre, reci�en nombrado comandante de un campo de concentraci�on, ha ascendido en su trabajo, y que ha pasado de vivir en una confortable casa de Berl�in a una zona aislada. Todo cambia cuando conoce a Shmuel, un ni�no jud�io que vive una extra�na existencia paralela al otro lado de la alambrada.
Bored and lonely after his family moves from...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
In 1945, the United States and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics transform...
18) The nun's story
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Audrey Hepburn portrays a nun whose life journey takes her from the staff of a mental asylum to a surgical nurse in the Belgian Congo. She returns to Belgium as WWII breaks out and is torn between the needs of the Resistance and the church's neutrality.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004?], c1996
Language
English
Description
At the end of World War II, a mysterious, horribly burned man who claims not to remember his name, known only as the "English patient," lies near death in an Italian villa. He is cared for by a quietly desperate young nurse, Hana, herself a victim of the war. With her at the villa are Kip, a young Sikh bomb-disposal expert, and a shadowy thief with bandaged hands named Caravaggio. The key to the burned man's past may lie in his commonplace book,...
Publisher
Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The story of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. When Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the event becomes a symbol of hope for the families at home, the three surviving men are pulled from combat and sent on a tour across America to raise desperately-needed bond money. It is a trip that brings out the truths of both that symbolic act, and their...
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