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1) Girl divided
Author
Publisher
ColtonBooks.com
Pub. Date
c2017
Description
A coming-of-age story of the author during World War II until 1956. Born into the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and then Croatia after they declared independence, she lives a life of struggle and survival during this time of war. Education becomes her way to a better life and out of the unknown of the aftermath of war.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Molly Guptill Manning comes The War of Words, the captivating story of how American troops in World War II wielded pens to tell their own stories as they made history.At a time when civilian periodicals faced strict censorship, US Army Chief of Staff George Marshall won the support of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to create an expansive troop-newspaper program. Both Marshall and FDR recognized that there...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Berlin, September, 1945. Two manuscripts are found in rubble, each one narrating conflicting versions of the life of an Irish spy during the war. One of them is the journal of a German military intelligence officer and anti-Nazi cowed into silence named Adrian de Groot, charting his relationship with his agent, friend, and sometimes lover, an Irishman named Frank Pike. In De Groot's narrative, Pike is a charismatic IRA fighter sprung from prison...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2010, c1963
Description
"In the darkest days of World War II, Lomax was Greece's last hope to drive the Nazis from the island of Kyros. His daring mission, and its brilliant success, should have ensured Lomax a hero's welcome when he returned to Kyros years later. Instead, he discovers that his allies on the island have been executed and the survivors manipulated to believe that he had betrayed them. Lomax is determined to earn back the trust of the people of Kyros. But...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
It's 1942, and London remains under constant threat of enemy attack. In the Bethnal Green neighborhood of the East End, Nellie Morris counts every day lucky that she emerges from the underground shelters unharmed, her loving family still surrounding her. Three years into the war, she's grateful to hold onto remnants of normalcy. But after a chance encounter with Ray, an American airman stationed nearby, Nellie becomes enchanted with the idea of a...
Author
Publisher
Regnery History
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A deathbed promise leads a daughter on an incredible journey to write about her grandfather who was a famous war hero. But this journey had a terrible destination: the discovery that he was a Nazi war criminal.
Silvia Foti's mother was dying. Wanting to preserve family history, Silvia's mother asks her to write a book about Foti's grandfather, Jonas Noreika, a famous WWII hero. Foti's grandmother tries to intervene - begging her granddaughter...
Author
Publisher
(Self published)
Pub. Date
c2020
Description
The love letters written by Nita Harris' parents, Essie Becknell and Boston Harris, during their courtship and marriage. the courtship took place before and during World War II. The couple from Gaffney, South Carolina never lost sight of their love for each other and the letters continued throughout their 6O year courtship and marriage.
Author
Description
"Fenna Vos has learned to focus on her own survival-even now, with the Second World War raging in faraway countries. She works on-stage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist-behind the curtain as the mastermind of their act. After all, her honed ability to control her surroundings and elude entrapments, physical or otherwise, reliably suppresses the trauma and tragedy of her youth. For all her calculations, however, Fenna neglects to foresee...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Ireland, 1941: While war rages across the world, Kate struggles on her family farm by the wild Atlantic Ocean. Living off rations and looking after her sick father, she doesn't dare dream of falling in love. But when she meets American airman, Tony, whose blue eyes are as stormy as the sea, her life collides with the war in ways she never imagined... They fall madly in love, stealing kisses in the rolling fields, and Tony vows to make her his wife....
Author
Publisher
CreatSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2017
Description
The book is mostly my autobiography but I sometimes allude to other subjects of interest to me. Though my autobiography is interesting, adventurous, and filled with many encounters with so called "Famous People", we all know most autobiographies are just folks pounding their chests and bragging how great they are. I want to avoid that so I write a bit differently. There are encounters with Putin, Wilt Chamberlin, Hawaiian Royaltys, Hervie Hancock,...
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Description
"Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It's a job usually reserved for men but in the war, those rules have been forgotten. Yet she knows that the Nazis are searching for the press and its printer in order to silence them. As the battle in Europe rages, Ava and Elaine find themselves connecting through coded messages and discovering hope in the face of war."
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