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Solitaire
Par Jane Thynne. 2017
June 1940: the first summer of the war. Berlin is being bombed and nightly blackouts suffocate the city. Then France…
falls and a shadow descends. A shadow has fallen over Clara Vine's own life, too. She is an Anglo-German woman in a country that hates England. Virulent anti-British propaganda is everywhere. Then she is summoned to meet the Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels who has decided that Clara should adopt a new role--as his spy--and that she must go to Paris on a mission. Much as she dislikes the idea, Clara realises this might be the chance to find an escape route to England. But Goebbels has other ideas and soon Clara is drawn into a web that threatens to destroy her. As everything she holds dear is taken as ransom, she must fight to protect her family--and to survive. 2017.Soldier boys
Par Dean Hughes. 2016
At the age of fifteen, Dieter's blind devotion gets him promoted from Hitler Youth into the German army, where he…
is determined to prove his allegiance and bravery at all costs. Spence, sixteen, drops out of his Utah high school to begin training as a paratrooper. He's seen how boys who weren't much in high school can come home heroes, and Spence wants to prove to his friends and family that he really can be something. Their worst fear was that the war would end too soon -- that they wouldn't get the chance to prove themselves. But when they finally see the action they were hoping for, it's like nothing they could have ever imagined. For junior and senior high readers. 2016.Spoils
Par Brian Van Reet. 2017
April 2003, Iraq. This novel explores the lives on both sides of the battle lines: Cassandra Wigheard, a nineteen-year-old gunner…
on an American Humvee who is captured during a deadly firefight and awakens in a prison cell; Abu Al-Hool, a lifelong mujahideen beset by a simmering crisis of conscience as he struggles against enemies from without and within, including the next wave of far more radicalized jihadists; and Specialist Sleed, a tank crewman who goes along with a "victimless" crime, the consequences of which are more awful than any he could have imagined. 2017.Stepping stones: a refugee family's journey
Par Margriet Ruurs, Nizar Ali Badr. 2016
A young girl and her family are forced to flee their village to escape the civil war that has engulfed…
Syria, and make their way toward freedom in Europe. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2016.Stolen child
Par Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch. 2010
Nadia begins to realize that the German family she grew up with, and the woman who calls herself Nadia's mother,…
are not who they say they are. She unearths memories of a woman singing her a lullaby, of her real family, but where are they now? This story of a Lebensborn girl - a child kidnapped for her "Aryan looks" by the Nazis in their frenzy to build a master race - reveals one child's fierce determination to uncover her past against incredible odds. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. 2010.Stinger
Par John Nichol. 1999
RAF pilot Sean Riever heads for the mountains of Afghanistan. His work with mine-clearance takes him as close to war…
as he wants to get. But when a passenger plane is shot down by a stinger missile, the ghosts of the past return to haunt him. Some descriptions of violence. 1999.Stalin versus me: Volume Ix Of The Bandy Papers (Bandy papers. #9.)
Par Donald Lamont Jack. 2005
As 1944 draws to a close, Bandy bobs through the ranks, dodging assassins, women, persecuting pilots, and a parcel of…
ladies' undergarments. He wonders about boozing pal Philby of the SIS, and Stalin, who can't really be out to get Bandy, just because he happens to know that a certain Soviet leader was once a Tsarist agent provocateur. From Normandy to Brussels to Yalta to Moscow, Bandy's career path is as labyrinthine as ever, strewn with bottles, battles, and brass-hat blood-pressure. Sequel to "Hitler versus me". Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2005. (The Bandy papers ; 9)Spring in September (Lansdown)
Par Ursula Bloom. 1991
Stalking horse
Par Terence Strong. 1993
Iraq invades Kuwait and the world lurches towards war. In Washington DC and London, two governments dread a biological attack…
that will lose them the battle before it begins. However, two intelligence agents are in a position to avert the catastrophe - Avery is a former SAS man; Corrigan is a Delta Force Soldier. Each is on a separate deep-cover assignment to penetrate the world's deadliest terrorist organisation. 1993.SS-GB: Nazi-occupied Britain, 1941
Par Len Deighton. 1978
What might have been if Germany had invaded and conquered Britain in 1941. In a ravaged London under Nazi occupation,…
Superintendent Douglas Archer of Scotland Yard, under SS command, starts work on a murder case. He soon finds himself involved with the Free British underground, who despise him for working for the Nazis. Can the Resistance exploit tensions between the German Army and the SS to rescue the King, who is a prisoner in the Tower of London? 1978.Some far elusive dawn
Par Emma Drummond. 1988
Colonial Singapore in the 1920s. Four young people struggle to make a life for themselves against a background of uncertainty…
and confusion. Alex seeks any challenge to compensate for his lack of freedom in a privileged home; his sister, Lydia, is over-protected. Martin has ended the war in shell-shock and into their lives comes the emancipated daughter of a risqué novelist. 1988.Spies of the Balkans
Par Alan Furst. 2010
Salonika, 1940. To the bustle of tavernas and the smell of hashish, a secret war is taking shape. In the…
backrooms of barbers, envelopes change hands, and in the Club de Salonique the air is thick with whispers. Costa Zannis is the city's dashing chief detective - a man with contacts high and low, in the Balkans and beyond. And as unknown ships and British 'travel writers' trickle through the port, he is a man very much in demand. Having helped defeat Italy in the highlands of Macedonia, Zannis returns to a city holding its breath. Mussolini's forces have retreated - for now - but German sights are fixed firmly on the region. And as the situation in Germany worsens, Zannis becomes involved in an audacious plot - smuggling Jews to Istanbul, through the back door of Europe. The British hear he can penetrate the continent's closed borders, and soon Zannis is embroiled in the resistance, and in a reckless love affair that could jeopardise everything. Strong language. 2010.Spitfire girl
Par Lily Baxter. 2011
It is 1940 and 18 year-old Susan longs to do her duty. Her secret ambition is to learn to fly.…
She meets Tony, a flying instructor, and friendship blossoms into love. Susan is forced to flee London and is taken in by a kindly innkeeper. She then receives news that Tony is missing in action. Will she realise her dreams of love and flying? 2011.Sophie's choice (Virago Modern Classics)
Par William Styron. 2004
Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in…
a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness, confidant and supplicant. Ultimately, he arrives at the dark core of Sophie's past: her memories of pre-war Poland, the concentration camp and - the essence of her terrible secret - her choice. 2004, c1979.Small wars
Par Sadie Jones. 2009
British army major Hal Treherne is dispatched to Cyprus in 1956, taking his wife Clara and their young twin girls.…
There, they fight separate, but equally maddening, battles - Clara as an army wife with babies in an increasingly dangerous land, and Hal on the front lines where, yearning for firefights, he is instead haunted by his lack of control when torture and rape occur at the hands of his own men. After Clara narrowly avoids death, Hal makes a split-second decision with powerful implications for their future. Descriptions of sex, explicit descriptions of violence. 2009.Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade: a duty-dance with death
Par Kurt Vonnegut. 1970
Billy Pilgrim, an American captured by the Germans in the Second World War, is billetted in a slaughterhouse in Dresden…
and survives the annihilation of the city by the RAF. He later becomes rich and successful, only to find himself transported to another planet from which he returns radiant and full of desire to preach his message. Strong language and violence. 1970, c1969.Search and destroy
Par Dean Hughes. 2017
Recent high school graduate Rick Ward, undecided about his future and eager to escape his unhappy home life, joins the…
army and experiences the horrors of the war in Vietnam. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.Signal, close action! (Richard Bolitho novels. #14.)
Par Alexander Kent. 1974
The year is 1798. Commodore Richard Bolitho is sent to the Mediterranean where Napoleon's naval forces are massing, preparing to…
annex Egypt. When Bolitho places his squadron between the Nile and the entire French fleet, the fate of his men and the freedom of his nation hang on the decisions he must make in the awful heat of battle. Sequel to "The flag captain" (DC10517). Followed by "The inshore squadron" (DC30670). 1974. (Richard Bolitho novels ; 14)Shadow on the mountain: a novel inspired by the true adventures of a wartime spy
Par Margi Preus. 2013
Shout at the devil
Par Wilbur A Smith. 1968
The year:1912. The place: East Africa. The action: ivory-poaching deep in the German-occupied delta of the steaming Rufiji river. Flynn,…
elephant-hunter and hounder of Germans, likes to enjoy the spoils of his sport without too much effort - and the arrival of rich young Sebastian Oldsmith is a windfall he cannot resist. Sebastian is rapidly plunged into not merely an ivory-hunt, but a murderous game of hide-and-seek with Flynn's enemy, the gross German Commissioner, Herman Fleischer. Descriptions of violence. 1968.