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61) The passenger
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When the German submarine, U-471, collects two prisoners from a vessel located off the Icelandic coast, ordered to transport them to the base at Brest, one of the prisoners, a British submarine commander, goes rogue, setting in motion a series of shocking, brutal events that seem to be linked to the supernatural.
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A photographer captured in Syria and imprisoned for seven months recounts his story and how he became the first American ever to escape al-Qaeda. "What is your name?" asked General Mohammad. "Matthew," I said. I had stopped saying Matt a while ago because it means 'dead' in Arabic. On New Year's Eve in 2012, Matthew Schrier was headed home from Syria, where he'd been photographing the intense combat of the country's civil war. Just forty-five minutes...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This 1944 World War Two drama tells the story of Anthony, a boy living in a deprived Welsh village, anticipating the arrival of American troops. Suddenly, a German plane crashes into the village mountain. A Polish prisoner-of-war survives and is brought into the community where he builds a close relationship with Anthony. Later, the villagers discover one of the Germans on the plane has survived and is still on the mountain. Joyous, thrilling, and...
69) Prisoners of war
Author
Series
World War II volume 30
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
72) Field gray
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
It's 1954 and Bernie finds himself flown back to Berlin to work for the French or hang for murder. Bernie's job is simple: to meet and greet POWs returning from Germany and snag one Edgard de Boudel, a French war criminal and member of the French SS. But Bernie's past as a German POW in Russia is about to catch up with him -- in a way he could never have foreseen.
Author
Publisher
Calder
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Poland, January 1945. Two women and four men escape from a Nazi death march. Each is from a different background and a different country, but all have endured the horrors of imprisonment in Auschwitz. They find refuge in an abandoned factory, and suddenly they realize that they are no longer mere numbers. Even in their wild euphoria at being free, however, they can have no certainty about their future.-Publisher.
Author
Series
Falconer volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
Aileana Kameron is the Falconer, born to hunt and slay the faeries who prey on mankind--but now, in 1847, the great battle is past, Edinburgh lies in ruins, and Aileana is a prisoner of the Fae prince Lonnrach, whose sister murdered her mother, and somehow she must find a way to escape, before he can steal her memories.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, on a remote Scottish Coast, Dorothy, while caring for sick and wounded Italian soldiers, is drawn to Cesare, a young man broken by the horrors of battle, until the tensions between the islanders and outsiders deepen, testing their loyalty and desire.
77) Deathcaster
Author
Series
Shattered realms novel volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 26
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"The realms descend into chaos as three rival armies battle for control"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Following the U.S. surrender to the Japanese on the peninsula of Bataan in 1942, 76,000 American and Filipino POWs began the infamous Death March. This gripping narrative, told in unsparing but sympathetic detail, focuses intermittently on American POW Ben Steele, whose sketches adorn the book, and the hell of Japanese prison and labor camps that introduced these captives to the starvation, dehydration and murderous Japanese brutality that would become...