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101) White Christmas
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Singers Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and Phil Davis (Danny Kaye) join sister act Betty (Rosemary Clooney) and Judy Haynes (Vera-Ellen) to perform a Christmas show in rural Vermont. There, they run into Gen. Waverly (Dean Jagger), the boys' commander in World War II, who, they learn, is having financial difficulties; his quaint country inn is failing. So what's the foursome to do but plan a yuletide miracle: a fun-filled musical extravaganza that's sure...
102) Spring 1941
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Successful doctor Artur Planck, his wife Clara, and their two daughters are seeking shelter from the Nazis storming Poland. They find a safe house in the farm of Emilia, their local grocer, who is all alone after her husband fought for his country and never returned. Amid the horrors of the war that surrounds them, an impossible love triangle erupts as Emelia uncontrollably falls in love with Artur.
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Description
Television producer Ava Ellington cannot refuse her grandfather's last wish--that she accompany him to Europe on a tour of World War II battle sites. Ava has little interest in historical battles, but this may be her last chance to break down the barriers that have grown up between them, and she sets off, camera in hand, ready to record and report on their journey. She and Grandpa Jack are greeted in Paris by Paul, her grandpa's best friend, and his...
105) The German Woman
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
This riveting war story introduces us to the beautiful Kate Zweig, the English widow of a German surgeon, and Claus Murphy, an exiled American with German roots-two lovers with complicated loyalties. In 1918, Kate and her husband, Horst, are taken for spies by Russian soldiers and forced to flee their field hospital on the eastern front, barely escaping with their lives. Years later, in London during the Nazis' V-1 reign of terror, Claus spends his...
106) Watch over my child
Author
Series
Michal's Destiny volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
After her parents are arrested by the Nazi's twelve-year old Gilde Margolis is sent away from her home, her sister, and everyone she knows and loves. Alone and afraid, Gilde boards a train through the Kinder-transport bound for Britain where she will stay with strangers, in London. Over the next seven years a Gilde is coming of age, the Nazi's will grow in power and London will be thrust into a brutal war against Hitler. Sever rationing will be imposed...
107) A Family Shattered
Author
Series
Michal's Destiny volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Taavi Margolis is arrested on Kristallnacht when he races out of his apartment to protect his daughters fiancee, Benny, who is being attached and killed by a gang of Nazi thugs as they pillage and destroy the streets of a little Jewish neighborhood in Berlin. Taavi's wife Michal and their two daughters stare in horror through the window as Benny is savagely murdered. Then, they watch helplessly as the gang turns their attention to Taavi. They beat...
108) El amante japonés
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
A los veintidos años, sospechando que tenían el tiempo contado, Ichimei y Alma se atragantaron de amor para consumirlo entero, pero mientras más intentaban agotarlo, más imprudente era el deseo, y quien diga que todo fuego se apaga solo tarde o temprano, se equivoca: hay pasiones que son incendios hasta que las ahoga el destino de un zarpazo y aun asi quedan brasas calientes listas para arder apenas se les da oxígeno ."
109) Generation war
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Vividly depicts the lives of five young German friends forced to navigate the unconscionable moral compromises of life under Hitler. Level-headed, highly decorated officer Wilhelm goes off to the eastern front with his sensitive younger brother Friedhelm. Deeply in love with Wilhelm is Charlotte, a young nurse who looks forward to serving in the Red Cross.
111) Charlotte Gray
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Description
It's World War II and Charlotte has been trained to be an undercover courier for England. She straps on a parachute and falls from the sky into Vichy, France. There she will assist the French Resistance in its defiance of Nazi occupation. Once behind enemy lines, she keeps secret her personal mission to find her lover, an RAF pilot downed over France.
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"In this highly anticipated new novel, Irishman Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman"--an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he's writing the story of his life with desperate urgency. He cannot take one step further without examining all the extraordinary events that he has seen. A lifetime of war and world travel--as a soldier in World War II, an engineer,...
113) The general's women
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Pub. Date
2017.
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Description
"When former fashion model Kay Summersby is assigned to drive General Eisenhower in war-time London, they quickly become involved -- in spite of Ike's marriage to Mamie and Kay's engagement to an American colonel. Kay and Ike struggle to keep their commitments but are increasingly and irresistably drawn to one another. Then Kay's financ�♭ is killed and Ike, facing the most challenging battles of the war, makes her his closest aide, confidante,...
114) Stalingrad
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
A band of Russian soldiers fight German forces to defend a strategic building in Stalingrad, and develop a deep bond with the women who live there.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Copenhagen, 1944. The exploits of Flame and Citron, a duo of assassins with the Danish resistance movement are becoming legendary. They begin by dispatching Danish collaborators and graduate to the occupying Nazis, after which the SS puts bounties on their heads. Their ultimate goal: Gestapo commandant Karl Heinz Hoffmann. As loyal Danes with a hatred of the Nazi occupation, they kill Danes who are collaborating. Flame seems empowered by killing,...
116) Michal's Destiny
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Series
Michal's Destiny volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
In a Jewish settlement a young woman is about to embark upon her destiny. Her father has arranged a marriage for her and she must comply with his wishes. She has never seen her future husband and she knows nothing about him. Michal's destiny lies in the hands of fate. On the night of her wedding she is terrified but her mother assures her that she will be alright. Her mother explains that it is her duty to be a good wife, to give her husband children...
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Michal's Destiny volume 4
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Its 1945. The Nazi's surrender. Hitler is dead. But the Third Reich has already left a bloody footprint on the soul of the world. The Margoils family and their friends Lotti and Lev Glassman were torn apart by Hitlers hatred of the Jewish people. Now that the Reich has fallen, the survivors of the Margolis and Glassman family's find themselves searching to reconnect with those they love.
118) Forever, my homeland
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Series
All my love Detrick volume 5
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
A group of Americans go on a tour of Israel with their Synagogue. One of them has a secret. Meanwhile, a group of radical Islamist's plan to use the visitors to bend Israel's policy of never negotiating with terrorists in order to free members of their group who are being held in Israeli prisons.. However, the terrorists must contend with Elan Amsel a Mossad agent who's devoted his life to the preservation of his beloved Israel. Elan believes that...
119) The promised land
Author
Series
All my love Detrick volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The Holocaust robbed Zofia Weiss of all she holds dear. The Secret State Police have confiscated her home, killed her friends, and imprisoned the man she loves. After searching through displaced persons camps and finding nothing, Zofia is sure that her lover is dead. With only her life, a dream, and a terrifying secret, Zofia illegally boards The Exodus, bound for Palestine. Along with a group of emaciated Jewish survivors, Zofia sets out to find...
120) The naked heart
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Description
An oath of vengeance sworn to her parents, who have been killed by the Gestapo, both sustains Gilberte de Permont and engulfs her in tragedy following World War II.