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World War, 1939-1945

Suite française

Irène Némirovsky, Sandra Smith

In 1940, several families and individuals are thrown together as they flee Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion and struggle to stay alive and grieve for the life they once knew

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Tamar

Mal Peet

In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last ye

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The boy in the striped pajamas

John Boyne

Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence

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Night

Elie Wiesel

A true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy with his family in a Nazi concentration camp

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The hiding place

Elizabeth Sherrill, Corrie Ten Boom

The memoirs of a Dutch woman who was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp during World War II as a result of her activities in the anti-Nazi underground

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Touch wood

Renée Roth-Hano

In this autobiographical novel set in Nazi-occupied France, Renée, a young Jewish girl, and her family flee their home in Alsace and live a precarious existence in Paris until Renée and her sister

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Operation "Citadel"

Janusz Piekałkiewicz

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The historical encyclopedia of World War II

Marcel Baudot, Encyclopédie de la guerre 1939-1945

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The Historical encyclopedia of World War II

Marcel Baudot, Encyclopédie de la guerre 1939-1945

Translation of: Encyclopedie de la guerre 1939-1945. A reference book illustrated with maps and charts and including a chronology of the war and discussions of the causes and the consequences

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The mystery of Hermann Goering's suicide

Ben E Swearingen

Provides the conclusions reached by this investigation into the suicide of Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering. The results are radically at odds with those of the U.S. Army Board of inquiry

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