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400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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The story of how a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts into hiding when al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's extraordinary places, and the myths from which it has become inseparable....
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English
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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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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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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...
5) Hiroshima
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1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Set in the three weeks from the test explosion in New Mexico to the dropping of the bomb, the action takes viewers into the room where the crucial political decisions are made, on board the Enola Gay, inside the bomb as it explodes, and in Hiroshima.
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viii, 375 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Drawing on a trove of confidential museum records and frank interviews, Felch and Frammolino give a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of a world-class museum and tell the story of the Getty's dealings in the illegal antiquities trade. Fast-paced and compelling, "Chasing Aphrodite" exposes the layer of dirt beneath the polished facade of the museum business.
11) Memphis Belle
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Based on a true story about the famous plane of World War II, the Flying Fortress, Memphis Belle is about the crew of one of the B-17s flying their last mission before they can go home to a hero's welcome.
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xiii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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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 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
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English
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Documents the inspiring January 2011 story about how thousands of Egypt's students, library workers, and demonstrators joined hands around the great Library of Alexandria to protect the building and the freedom it represents.
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x, 274 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Beyond what most people think about archaeology--with its cleanly numbered dates, and discoveries--lies a vibrant and controversial realm of scientists, thieves, and contested land claims. Here, naturalist and adventurer Childs explores the field's transgressions against the cultures it tries to preserve, and pauses to ask: To whom does the past belong? Written in his trademark lyrical style, this book carries readers directly into his adventures...
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1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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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English
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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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1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequence ; 4 3/4 in.
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Français
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Set in 1944, a historical drama that depicts the relationship between Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of occupied Paris, and Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling.
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Criterion collection volume 1035
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2 videodiscs (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages ; 18 cm).
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Belarusian
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As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty. The films was nearly blocked from being made by Soviet censors, who took seven years to approve its script.
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