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Series
Honor bound volume 5
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
August, 1943: In his short time as a spy with the Office of Strategic Services, young Cletus Frade has faced many unlikely situations, but nothing like his new assignment. Having helped Lieutenant Colonel Wilhelm Frogger escape a Mississippi P.O.W. camp, he must now get the defiant German to turn against his country.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tracing the arc of World War II from within the walls of one of history’s most notorious prisons—Colditz Castle—that held the most defiant Allied prisoners, this gripping narrative shows how a remarkable cast of POWs concocted ingenious ways to escape their Nazi captors.
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Since all available men are fighting for the Allies overseas, Fannie O'Brien bears the weight of her Wisconsin family farm on her shoulders. Her mother enlists the only help she can - German Prisoners of War shipped to the Heartland from the front lines. Fannie cannot imagine working alongside men who might have been shooting at her brothers and killing her friends. Days of doing hard manual labor side by side, however, cause her to realize the gap...
6) No surrender: a father, a son, and an extraordinary act of heroism that continues to live on today
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Part contemporary detective story, part World War II historical narrative, No Surrender is the inspiring true story of Roddie Edmonds, a Knoxville-born enlistee who risked his life during the treacherous final days of World War II to save others from murderous Nazis, and the lasting effects his actions had on thousands of lives--then and now"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Overlook Duckworth
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Peter Tunstall's memoir of his days in the British Royal Air Force and as one of the most celebrated British POWs of World War II. Tunstall was an infamous tormentor of his German captors. Dubbed the "cooler king" on account of his long spells in solitary, he once dropped a water "bomb" directly in the lap of a high-ranking German officer. He also devised an ingenious method for smuggling coded messages back to London. But above all he was a highly...
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