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Hidden gold
Par Ella Burakowski. 2015
The Gold family lived an idyllic life in pre-war Poland, but that life was shattered in 1939 when Germany invaded…
Poland and Jewish people were forced into the streets, their homes, schools, and businesses burned. Eventually, the Golds hid in a cramped, secret enclosure for twenty-six months. Appalling conditions, starvation, fear of imminent betrayal and capture makes this a heart-stopping testament to the human spirit. For junior high readers. Winner of the 2017 Red Maple Non-Fiction Honour Book Award. 2015.Branded by the pink triangle
Par Carolyn Jackson, Ken Setterington, Malcolm Lester, Jonathan Schmidt. 2013
A history of the persecution of homosexuals by the Nazi regime during the years of the Holocaust. When the Nazis…
came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals were imprisoned along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn onto prison uniforms, became the symbol of their persecution. For junior and senior high readers. 2013.I'll take that one: dispelling the myths of civilian evacuation 1939-45
Par Martin L Parsons. 1998
In this book Dr. Parsons looks behind the government propaganda and traditional portrayals of the evacuation in order to uncover…
the myths which have surrounded this period in British History. His analysis of documentary evidence reveals a more complex picture of evacuation than has hitherto been recognised. Parsons has also allowed the evacuees to speak for themselves through his collection of oral history testimonies. 1998.Guardian angel house (A Holocaust remembrance book for young readers)
Par Kathy Clark. 2009
Momma had always told Susan that there was no safe place for a Jew, especially in German-occupied Hungary in 1944.…
So why were twelve-year-old Susan and her sister, Vera, being sent to a convent to be kept safe? Susan and her sister soon discover the true nature of courage, sheltered by a group of nuns who risk their lives to protect them. Based on a true story. Grades 4-7. Some descriptions of violence. 2009.Chapel of extreme experience: a short history of flicker
Par John Geiger. 2002
The true story of how the discovery of flicker potentials, and scientific observations about strange patterns, organized hallucinations, and even…
the displacement of time derived from stroboscopic light, nearly resulted in a Dream Machine in every home. 2002.Faith, hope and Malta GC: ground and air heroes of the George Cross island
Par Tony Spooner. 1992
Malta was a vital base from which Allied aircraft could inflict serious damage on the crucial Axis supply route to…
Rommel in North Africa. In order to secure that route the might of the Luftwaffe and Italian Air Forces were thrown together against the tiny island, affecting not just the defending servicemen and women but the entire population. Heavily bombed and running short of fuel and food, the island laboured to stand firm in the face of the enemy. This book describes how the RAF and FAA fighter, bomber, torpedo and reconnaissance aircraft crews took the fight to the enemy and triumphantly succeeded with every odd stacked against them. 1992.Flag 4: the battle of coastal forces in the Mediterranean 1939-1945
Par Dudley Pope. 1998
FLAG 4, the signal for attack with torpedoes, is an account of the actions of British motor torpedo boats and…
US PT-boats in the Mediterranean during the Second World War. It is based on the eyewitness accounts of the officers and men who served in these perilous actions. 1998.D-Day, 1944: voices from Normandy
Par Robin Neillands, Roderick De Normann. 1994
This is the story of one day, fifty miles of French coast and about 200,000 men: of Operation "Overlord" and…
the events of June 6th, 1944. Told in the words of those who were there, from commanding officers to privates, are the tales of British, Canadian, American and German soldiers, sailors and airmen and the men and women of the French resistance. Here is a full account of the largest, most complex invasion in the history of warfare. 1994.Enemies become friends: a true story of German Prisoners of War
Par Pamela Howe Taylor. 1997
Using letters, diaries and newspaper reports the text tells of the people of Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire at the end of…
the Second World War, who welcomed German prisoners of war from the local camp into their homes at Christmas, and later they scraped together food and clothing to send to those same prisoners when they were repatriated to a devastated Germany. 1997.German jet aces of World War 2 (Osprey aircraft of the aces. #17.)
Par Stephen H Morgan, John A Weal. 1998
The Third Reich's last ditch efforts to sweep the massed Allied bomber formations from the skies of Germany centred around…
the new crop of jet 'wonder weapons' that were issued to the 'Jagdwaffe' from mid-1944 onwards. Despite operating from autobahns and forest runways, always being short of the exotic fuels necessary and lacking any strength in numbers, a handful of pilots amassed amazing scores in the last year of the war on these aircraft, flying with units like JG 7, JV 44 and NJG 11. This is their story. 1998.Kasztner's train: the true story of Rezso Kasztner, unknown hero of the holocaust
Par Anna Porter. 2007
In summer 1944, Rezso Kasztner, a lawyer and journalist, met with Adolf Eichmann in Budapest, where the two men made…
an agreement that allowed 1,684 Jews to leave for Switzerland by train. In other manoeuvrings, Kastzner may also have saved another 40,000 Jews already in the camps. Kasztner was later judged for having "sold his soul to the devil", and prior to being exonerated, he was murdered in Israel in 1957. Some explicit descriptions of violence and strong language. 2007.Juno Beach: Canada's D-Day victory, June 6, 1944
Par Mark Zuehlke. 2004
On June 6, 1944, the greatest armada in history stood off Normandy and the largest amphibious invasion ever began, as…
107,000 men aboard 6,000 ships attacked the French coast. Of the 18,000 Canadians involved in storming Juno Beach, one out of every six either died or was wounded, yet they were the only Allied troops to meet their objectives. Drawing on personal diaries as well as military records, the author depicts Canada's pivotal contribution to the most critical Allied battle of World War II. 2004.Killing the Bismarck: destroying the pride of Hitler's fleet
Par Iain Ballantyne. 2017
In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic to attack…
Allied shipping. The Royal Navy's pursuit and subsequent destruction of the Bismarck was an epic of naval warfare. In this new account of those dramatic events at the height of the Second World War, Ballantyne draws extensively on the graphic eye-witness testimony of veterans to construct a thrilling story, mainly from the point of view of the British battleships, cruisers, and destroyers involved. He describes the tense atmosphere as cruisers play a lethal cat-and-mouse game as they shadow Bismarck in the icy Denmark Strait. We witness the shocking destruction of the British battle cruiser HMS Hood, in which all but three of her ship's complement were killed, an event that fueled pursuing Royal Navy warships, including the battered battleship Prince of Wales, with a thirst for revenge. 2017.Gentleman Jim: the wartime story of a founder of the SAS and Special Forces
Par Lorna Almonds Windmill. 2002
The story of Jim Almonds is set in wartime England, the western desert, Italy and France, and recounts his formative…
role in the birth of the SAS. Against a backdrop of love, courage and high-risk adventure, it captures the real spirit of the young soldiers in the newly emerging Special Air Service. 2002.Forgotten victory: First Canadian Army and the cruel winter of 1944-45
Par Mark Zuehlke. 2014
During the winter of 1944-45, the western Allies desperately sought a strategy that would lead to Germany's quick defeat. After…
much rancorous debate, the Allied high command decided that First Canadian Army would launch the pivotal offensive. Their story is one largely lost to the common national history of World War II. “Forgotten Victory” gives this important legacy back to Canadians. c2014.Invasions without tears: the story of Canada's top-scoring Spitfire wing in Europe during the Second World War
Par Monty Berger, Brian Jeffrey Street. 1994
Based on a manuscript written by Monty Berger in 1945, "Invasion without tears" chronicles the RCAF's 126 Wing from its…
formation in July 1943 to VE-Day two years later. The pilots of 126 Wing were among the war's most decorated and 126 Wing scored more victories than any other Allied air force. 1994.Invisible: the dangerous allure of the unseen
Par Philip Ball. 2014
If offered the chance - by cloak, spell, or superpower - to be invisible, who wouldn’t want to give it…
a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy voyeurism and the ability to conceal our own acts, but as desirable as it may seem, invisibility is also dangerous. It is not just an optical phenomenon, but a condition full of ethical questions. The story of invisibility is not so much a matter of how it might be achieved but of why we want it and what we would do with it. 2015, c2014.Indianapolis: the true story of the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history and the fifty-year fight to exonerate an innocent man
Par Lynn Vincent, Sara Vladic. 2018
Based on years of original research and new reporting, two acclaimed authors deliver the riveting and emotionally wrenching full story…
of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during World War II--and the fifty-year fight to exonerate the captain after a wrongful court martial. 2018.Infamy: the shocking story of the Japanese American internment in World War II
Par Richard Reeves. 2015
Examines the key causes and dire consequences of the Japanese-American internment in relocation camps during WWII, concentrating on a shortsighted…
military strategy and anti-Japanese sentiment following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. 2015.In the name of humanity
Par Max Wallace. 2017
On November 26, 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz heard a deafening explosion. Emerging from their barracks, they witnessed the crematoria--part of…
the largest killing machine in human history--come crashing down. Most assumed they had fallen victim to inmate sabotage and thousands gave a silent cheer. However, the Final Solution's most efficient murder apparatus had been felled by SS chief Heinrich Himmler--an edict that has puzzled historians for more than six decades. Wallace draws on a cache of recently declassified documents and an account from the only living eyewitness to unravel the mystery. He reveals an incredible story involving the secret negotiations of an unlikely trio--a former fascist President of Switzerland, a courageous Orthodox Jewish woman, and Himmler himself--to end the Holocaust, aided by clandestine Swedish and American intelligence efforts. 2017.