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In 1914 they called it The Great War, and few could imagine anything worse. For nearly three decades a peace forged in blood and fatigue has held sway in North America. Now, Japan dominates the Pacific, the Russian Tsar rules Alaska, and England, under Winston Churchill, chafes for a return to its former glory. But behind the façade of world order, America is a bomb waiting to go off. Jake Featherston, the megalomaniacal leader of the Confederate...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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The true story of Moe Berg, professional baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney, and a top-secret spy who helped the US win the race against Germany to build the atomic bomb.
6) The way back
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Image Entertainment
Language
English
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"Inspired by an incredible true story... begins in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is further tested when they meet a teenage runaway who begs...
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A Bantam book volume Q7172
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1972, c1955]
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on an autobiography, this film tells the true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering the psychological trauma of his wartime experiences, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Accompanied by his best friend, Lomax returns to the scene...
10) The lost letters
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Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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"Norfolk, 1940: Sylvia's husband Howard has gone off to war, and she is struggling to raise her two children alone. Her only solace is her beach hut in Wells-Next-The-Sea, and her friendship with Connie, a woman she meets on the beach. The two women form a bond that will last a lifetime, and Sylvia tells Connie something that no-one else knows: about a secret lover... and a child. Canada, present day: When Martha's beloved father dies, he leaves...
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Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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When the Nazis march onto the cobbled streets of Colmar on November 1st 1940, Josef, a Jewish violin maker, gathers his wife and daughters closely to him and tells them everything will be alright. But one year later, oldest daughter Sarah must be the first to make her escape in a perilous journey across France via Paris to Poitiers. Ralf, a German deserter, risks his life to save her along the way. But when Ralf is captured, further along the journey,...
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2008
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2 videodiscs (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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English
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The story of a young girl who had to go into hiding during World War II for being different. Anne Frank's diary manages to create a truthful and timeless picture of domestic life in all its pettiness and normalcy, while never letting us forget the extraordinary threat of death that awaits the characters if they are discovered. This is the first authorized film based on actual entries of the real diary
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Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Alternates between two stories--comtemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation
Series
Studio classic volume 15
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Anne Frank, a Dutch Jew, perished along with most of her family in a concentration camp, but her hopes, dreams, and optimistic outlook has endured through the publication of her diary in 1952. Her diary conveys the precariousness of the Frank family and that of their fellow exiles, the Van Daan family and fussy dentist Mr. Dussel. They spent their time hiding from the Gestapo in a tiny Amsterdam attic
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Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 13
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
378 p. ; 25 cm
Language
English
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the war ended, his battle began. Based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling book, this begins where Unbroken ends, sharing the next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini's powerful true story of forgiveness, redemption, and amazing grace.
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