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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thailand-Burma Death Railway in 1943, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. His life is a daily struggle to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from pitiless beatings--until he receives a letter that will change him forever. Moving deftly from the POW camp to contemporary Australia, from the experiences of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Paris, 1944 Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, the chanteuse's position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian de Rocheford, is captured by Nazis, Genevieve knows it won't be long before the Gestapo succeeds in torturing information out of Lillian that will derail the upcoming allied invasion. The resistance movement...
4) Major Dundee
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A calvary officer fights Apaches while keeping Confederate prisoners in line.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When a German submarine collects two prisoners from a vessel located off the Icelandic coast, one of the prisoners, a British submarine commander, goes rogue, setting in motion a series of shocking, brutal events that seem to be linked to the supernatural.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Waking up in a hospital to learn that his girlfriend has died, backpacker Leo blames himself for her fatal accident and discovers a surprising secret with ties to a POW fugitive's 1917 efforts to traverse the Russian steppes in order to reclaim the womanhe loves.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In this captivating new young adult edition, the story of a man's breathtaking odyssey and the courage, cunning, and fortitude he found to endure and overcome. This gripping narrative will introduce a new generation to one of history's most thrilling survival epics.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the indomitable American POWs who endured "Alcatraz," the Hanoi prison camp where North Vietnam locked its most dangerous and subversive prisoners, and the wives who fought to bring them home. During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners of war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of communist interrogators who ruthlessly plied them for military intelligence and propaganda. Determined to maintain...
Author
Publisher
North Star Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
More than fifteen POW camps housing German captives existed in Minnesota during World War II. This is the history of those camps, where they were, how they worked, how the POWs contributed to Minnesota economy, and how and when they ended.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In this epistolary novel from the WWII home front, Johanna Berglund is forced to return to her small Midwestern town to become a translator at a German prisoner of war camp. There, amid old secrets and prejudice, she finds that the POWs have hidden depths. When the lines between compassion and treason are blurred, she must decide where her heart truly lies.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Jimmy, Hank, and Billy were more than just the preacher's son, the outcast, and the tagalong. They are brothers by choice, sharing a bond of loyalty, understanding, and friendship throughout life's ups and downs. When the trio enlists together with the hope of seeing the world, they instead find themselves on the explosive front lines of the Pacific Theater after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Fighting for survival in a violent new world of dizzying...
15) Unbroken
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
College-bound Sam Witwicky learns the truth about the ancient origins of the Transformers. He will have to accept his destiny and join Optimus Prime and Bumblebee in their epic battle against the Decepticons. The Decepticon forces, who have returned stronger than ever, have come to Earth on a mission to take Sam prisoner and destroy the world.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The incredible true story of fighter pilot Joe Moser's war in the sky and secret survival at Buchenwald during World War II. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his 44th combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 150 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In her new role as a CIA station chief, Carrie convinces Saul and Quinn to help her hunt down one of the world's most dangerous terrorists. But when Carrie recruits a young Pakistani as an asset, the lines between right and wrong blur and the operation spins out of control. Facing unclear loyalties at every turn, Carrie must take extreme measures and risk everything to protect her country.
20) The way back
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"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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