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The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts--first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets--by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance, of friendship and romance, and of unwavering devotion--including the readiness to risk one's life--to literature and art. And it is entirely true....
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Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along with the thirty thousand books within it--will be destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civilians--especially women--have little power, this true story about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books reminds...
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xiii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves--Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book theft, as he himself joins the effort to return the stolen books. When the Nazi soldiers ransacked Europe's libraries and bookshops, large and small, the...
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1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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History of the legendary tank with combat footage of the Tiger in action, as well as footage of the Ferdinand/Elefant on the Eastern front and the Sturmtiget in action in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
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viii, 317 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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"History of Napoleon's art looting of Italy and the subsequent formation of the Louvre"--
Painted in 1563, Paolo Veronese's Wedding Feast at Cana was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Lavish color built the illusion that the viewers' space opened onto a biblical banquet taking place on a terrace in sixteenth-century Venice. In 1797, under the command of a young Napoleon Bonaparte, it was torn from the wall of a monastery in Venice and in 1801...
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26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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Cuenta la verdadera historia sobre la lucha de un librarian para guardar la colección inestimable de su community de libros cuando llega la guerra a Basora, Iraq.
Tells the true story about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books when war comes to Basra, Iraq.
Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war...
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xxxv, 364 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Tells the story of the infamous British military operation, the Dambusters raid. This aerial bombing attack, called Operation Chastise, was responsible for the overnight destruction of the Möhne and Eder dams in northwest Germany by Britain's Royal air Force 617 Squadron, an epic wartime maneuver that has become military legend.
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1 videodisc (approximately 118 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time, they would risk their lives to protect...
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"As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of Western civilization. As the war raged, these American and...
17) Information hunters: when librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World War II Europe
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xi, 277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Information Hunters examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, and spies went to Europe to collect books and documents to aid the Allies' cause. They travelled to neutral cities to find enemy publications for intelligence analysis and followed advancing armies to capture records in a massive program of confiscation. After the...
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