His Story Is My Story: Authentic Stories about Survival and Success of a German Father and Daughter after World War II, Paperback - Elke McKee

Reducere. Stories of Elke McKee's WWII German soldier father who was captured and spent ten years as a Russian prisoner, his impression of the kind Russian p...

Reducere. Martin Weigen was eleven when the Nazis invaded his hometown of Starachowice, Poland. He survived the death march from Auschwitz, imprisonment at B...

Reducere. Out of the eyes of a child and the heart of a daughter who would never forget the man that she first called "father" comes On My Father's Side by L...

Reducere. A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2018 A gripping adventure story and a rich resource for history lovers When 14-year-old Floren...

The bestselling autobiography of the legendary Louis Zamperini, hero of the blockbuster UnbrokenA modern classic by an American legend, Devil at My...

Reducere. Athletically gifted, Louis Zamperini propelled himself from the tough streets of Southern California to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and to an NCAA mi...

Reducere. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine - Winner of the Los Ange...

Sins of the Father tells of Shaneda Daly's horrific abuse for over a decade by her own father, and how she managed to take back the power he had ta...

Reducere. DescriptionJohan Otter's life changed in a fraction of a second the day he and his daughter Jenna were attacked by a grizzly bear while hiking in G...

Reducere. Praise for The Rescue ""Steven Trent Smith grapples boldly with several big subjects: the Japanese occupation of the Philippines; the capture of Ja...

Acclaimed naval historian Don Keith tells one of the most inspiring sea stories of World War II: the Japanese attack on the American oiler USS Neos...

In the late summer and early autumn of 1938, ten-year-old Ruth Block, along with her father, mother and best friend, Miriam, must navigate the incr...

Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Tom ClavinNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 167 x 245 x 30Cover type: Hardba...

Reducere. London schoolgirl Hettie hears the whispers and sees the worry creeping across her parents' faces. She watches as the windows in her home are black...

Reducere. An inspiring true story about one girl's escape from the Holocaust to become a concert pianist against all odds, made popular by Mona Golabek's acc...

Publisher: Capstone Global Library LtdAuthor(s): Jenni L. WalshNumber of pages: 112Collection: Girls SurvivePublication date: 2021Dimensions: 133 x...

Reducere. A riveting WWII account of survival at sea--Book 4 in the middle grade True Rescue series from Michael J. Tougias, the author of the New York Times...

Reducere. Fourteen-year-old Lisa Jura was a musical prodigy who hoped to become a concert pianist. But when Hitler's armies advanced on pre-war Vienna, Lisa'...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the late summer and early fall of 1938, ten-year-old Ruth Block, along with her father, mother, and best friend, Miriam, must navigat...

Reducere. London schoolgirl Hettie hears the whispers and sees the worry creeping across her parents' faces. She watches as the windows in her home are black...

What makes 2nd Lieutenant Phil Larimore's story special is what happened in World War II's closing days and the people-and horses-he interacted wit...

Inna Wolkovich Gardner Nichols' story is not a recount of the horrors of war--for those stories have already been written. Her story is a true pers...

Reducere. AS the twentieth century breathes its very last, with Britpop at its zenith, twenty-seven-year-old A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning h...

DescriptionAfter the death of Joanie Holzer Schirm's parents in 2000, she found hundreds of letters, held together by rusted paperclips and stamped...

Reducere. What if you found an old forgotten picture of your mother marrying a man who wasn't your dad? And it led to your mother revealing the riveting and ...

An extraordinary tale of the remarkable bond between one man and his dog during the Second World War.

Publisher: Walker Books LtdAuthor(s): Michael RosenNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 14Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. See E.B. Sledge's story in the HBO miniseries The Pacific China Marine is the extraordinary sequel to E.B. Sledge's memoir, With the Old Breed, whi...

Michael Rosen embarks on a journey into the truth behind the fate of his relatives who disappeared during the Second World War, interspersing this ...

France under Fire: German Invasion, Civilian Flight and Family Survival during World War II - Nicole Dombrowski Risser

Originally published in 1985, this book provides an important insight into the principal aspects of the history of the policy and practice of polit...

Reducere. From leading political figure and bestselling Hebrew author Yair Lapid comes a mesmerizing portrait of the author's father, one of modern Israel's ...

Reducere. Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most...

A #1 New York Times bestselling author traces her father's life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to New York City in an intimate memoir about family...

Reducere. What do you wear to meet your father for the first time? In 2004, Hannah Pool knew more about next season's lipstick colors than she did about Afri...

'Asperger's made me a prisoner in my own home. When I finally entered the real world, evil was waiting.' A shocking true account of one girl's harr...

Reducere. How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance, " which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France ...

Reducere. Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century, Paperback

I felt Fred's small hand grab me.He patted me and whispered, Bear, I won't leave you here all by yourself.You are my best friend.Based on true even...

Six-year-old Lia loves to build sandcastles at the beach and her biggest problem is her shyness and quiet, birdlike voice-until prime minister Muss...

Reducere. "One of Ten Best History Books of 2021." --Smithsonian Magazine For fans of The Boys in the Boat and The Storm on Our Shores, this impeccably resea...

Reducere. The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the concentration camp, Buna-Monow...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert S. JohnsonAuthor: Martin CaidinThunderbolt , first published in 1958, is the memoir of Robert S. Johnson, one of the...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the 1930s Louis Zamperini was a promising Olympic track athlete. But when World War II broke out, he enlisted and served as a bombard...

Explores Jewish emigration from Palestine and Israel during the critical period between 1945 and the late 1950s by weaving together the perspective...

Publisher: Craven Street BooksAuthor(s): Russell N LowIllustration(s): 179 b/w photosNumber of pages: 404Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 22...

Reducere. Other Losses caused an international scandal when first published in 1989 by revealing that Allied Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower's policies c...

Reducere. A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five...