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Quick view Details Unbroked: A World War II Story of Suvival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
Quick view Details Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by Matthew Tobin Anderson
Quick view Details Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust by Doreen Rappaport
Quick view Unbroken: A world War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber 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--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by... View Details
Quick view Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston During World War II a community called Manzanar was created in the high mountain desert country of California. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese Americans. Among them was the Wakatsuki family, who were ordered to leave their fishing... View Details
Quick view Hiroshima by John Hersey Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, John Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told. His account of what he discovered about them is now the eloquent and moving final chapter... View Details
Quick view Unbroked: A World War II Story of Suvival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman,... View Details
Quick view Hana's Suitcase: The Quest to Solve a Holocaust Mystery by Karen Levine A Japanese woman is determined to uncover the identity and destiny of the owner of a suitcase sent by a Holocaust museum. Her investigation takes her around the world before she finally solves the mystery, while using the journey to teach her students... View Details
Quick view D-Day Landings: The Story of the Allied Invasion by Richard Platt How did the Allies plan and execute the most massive and daring invasion in military history? This age-appropriate reader explains in thrilling detail how the Nazis were defeated on the beaches of France. Photos. View Details
Quick view Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust by Ruth Thomson Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany turned the small town of Terezin, Czechoslovakia, into a ghetto, and then into a transit camp for thousands of Jewish people. It was a "show" camp, where inmates were forced to use their artistic talents to fool the... View Details
Quick view Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by Matthew Tobin Anderson In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history--almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943-1944... View Details
Quick view Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust by Doreen Rappaport In a stirring chronicle, Doreen Rappaport brings to light the courage of countless Jews who organized to sabotage the Nazis and help other Jews during the Holocaust. Doreen Rappaport illuminates the defiance of tens of thousands of Jews across eleven... View Details
Quick view Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights by Jim Haskins A respected biographer teams up with an acclaimed artist to tell the story of a mail carrier, who in 1961 orchestrated the Great Savannah Boycott and was instrumental in bringing equality to his Georgia community. Full color. View Details
Quick view Midnight: A True Story of Loyalty in World War I by Mark Greenwood Guy Haydon raised and trained Midnight from the time she was a foal. The two had such a strong bond that when World War I broke out, Lieutenant Haydon slipped away from the frontlines of Gallipoli on an Egypt-bound ship to reunite with his horse. There,... View Details
Quick view The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War by David Almond Writers of this collection of short stories were inspired to write about the First World War by physical objects associated with the war. View Details