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41) Code name: Lise : the true story of the woman who became World War II's most highly decorated spy
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary true story of Odette Sansom, the British spy who operated in occupied France and fell in love with her commanding officer during World War II--perfect for fans of Unbroken, The Boys in the Boat, and Code Girls."--Provided by publisher.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue. In March 1940, the Nazis sweep Paris and immediately take up residence in one of the city's most iconic sites: The Hotel Ritz....
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"London, 2017: When Aurelia Leclaire inherits an opulent Paris apartment, she is shocked to discover her grandmother's hidden secrets--including a treasure trove of famous art and couture gowns. One obscure painting leads her to Gabriel Seymour, a highly respected art restorer with his own mysterious past. Together they attempt to uncover the truths concealed within the apartment's walls. Paris, 1942: The Germans may occupy the City of Lights, but...
44) The devil knows how to ride: the true story of William Clarke Quantrill and his Confederate raiders
Author
Language
English
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Description
William Clarke Quantrill was a quiet Ohio schoolteacher and Confederate soldier who became the most feared and notorious guerrilla of the Civil War. A brilliant tactician, Quantrill was a brave and charismatic man who attracted hundreds to his side--notably the teenaged Frank James, Jesse James, and Cole Younger. The peak of his career came on August 21, 1863, when he led 450 men in a dawn raid on the staunchly Unionist town of Lawrence, Kansas. Author...
Author
Language
English
Description
"As a hospice nurse, Zara Mitchell has already seen more death than most people will experience in a lifetime. So when her older sister asks her to help care for their ailing grandmother, Zara agrees - despite strained family relationships. Though pale and tired, Nonna has lost none of her sharp mind. She's fixated on finding something long forgotten, and she immediately puts Zara to work cleaning out the attic. Unexpectedly, amid the tedium of sifting...
46) Under occupation
Author
Series
Night Soldiers volume 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Occupied Paris, 1942. Just before he dies, a man being chased by the Gestapo hands off a strange-looking document to the unsuspecting novelist Paul Ricard. It looks like a blueprint of a part for a military weapon, one that might have important information for the Allied forces. Ricard realises he must try to get it into the hands of members of the resistance network. As Ricard finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into anti-Nazi efforts, and into...
47) Allied
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2017, �2016.
Language
English
Description
The story of intelligence officer Max Vatan, who in 1942 North Africa encounters French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Reunited in London, their relationship is threatened by the extreme pressures of the war.
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"A courageous young noblewoman risks her life to hide French resistance fighters; seventy years later, her granddaughter visits the family's abandoned chateau and uncovers shocking secrets from the past. Gisele Duchant guards a secret that could cost her life. Tunnels snake through the hill under her family's medieval chateau in Normandy. Now, with Hitler's army bearing down, her brother and several friends are hiding in the tunnels, resisting the...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to be safe at last, now that the Italians have broken with Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as it becomes overnight an open battleground among...
50) Her darkest hour
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
‘You and me – we’re sisters, not enemies. We’ve got a real enemy at our door and we need to focus on that – together, united. I don’t want to be fighting you as well.’ In the small French town of Colmar, swastikas hang from lampposts, tanks are lined up outside the town hall, and twenty-one-year-old Marie-Claire is in love. She will do anything for her childhood friend Jacques, including spying on her...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Heartbroken and hoping for a new start, Abi Howes takes a summer job in rural France at the Chateau Bellevue. The old chateau echoes with voices from the past, and soon Abi finds herself drawn to one remarkable woman's story, a story that could change the course of her summer - and her life. In 1938, Eliane Martin tends beehives in the garden of the beautiful Chateau Bellevue. In its shadow she meets Mathieu Dubosq and falls in love for the first...
52) Allied: Blu-Ray
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The story of intelligence officer Max Vatan, who in 1942 North Africa encounters French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Reunited in London, their relationship is threatened by the extreme pressures of the war.
Author
Publisher
Casemate Publishers
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Escaping to the jungle of north Luzon after General MacArthur pulled out of Bataan, Captain Russell Volckmann refused to surrender. Over the next three years, he raised a 22,000 strong, Filipino army and led a guerrilla war against the Japanese killing over 50,000 enemy soldiers. Had it not been for Volckmann, the Americans would have gone in "blind" during their counter-invasion. Volckmann is established as the progenitor of modern counter-insurgency...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Fall in line for a second hilarious season of laughs, starring the ragtag band of World War II POWs known as Hogan's heroes! Join Colonel Robert Hogan and his gang of merry saboteurs as their hilarious plots, plans and schemes aimed at the German war machine are launched right under the noses of Stalag 13's inept camp commandant, Colonel Wilhelm Klink, and his bumbling sidekick, Sergeant Hans Schultz."--Container.
Author
Series
Caroline Ferriday volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this powerful debut novel reveals an incredible story of love, redemption, and terrible secrets that were hidden for decades. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939--and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"After the defeat of the French Army and Britain's retreat from the Continent in June 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the [Special Operations Executive (SOE)] to 'set Europe ablaze.' The agents infiltrated Nazi-occupied territory, parachuting behind enemy lines and hiding in plain sight, quietly but forcefully recruiting, training, and arming local French r�esistants to attack the German war machine. SOE would not only change the...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue."
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The face of the woman in the photograph was tilted upwards, as if enjoying the sunshine just for a moment, even as the wreckage of the bombed-out street lay behind her... 1944, Cornwall: Blinded by love, Vivienne Hamilton eloped to Paris with a Nazi prisoner-of-war, never to be seen again. A disgrace to her family, her name would not be mentioned by any of her relatives for over 75 years. Present day, London: When Sophie discovers a photograph of...