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1) Catch-22
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Catch-22 is a darkly comic anti-war novel that follows Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army bombardier during World War II, as he desperately tries to escape the madness and bureaucracy of military life. Trapped by the paradoxical logic of "Catch-22"-which states that trying to avoid combat missions proves one is sane, but asking to be grounded is evidence of insanity-Yossarian finds himself in an endless cycle of absurdity, fear, and frustration.
Through...
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The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China.
Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.
Shanghai, 1941—a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his...
Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.
Shanghai, 1941—a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his...
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Sword of honour volume 3
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Loosely based on Waugh's own war-time experiences, The End of the Battle is his last novel in the trilogy of World War II, written with the usual Waugh wit, grace, and polished humor, the story of British officer Guy Crouchback.
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Twin brothers flying for opposing sides of World War II are caught in a lethal spy game in this New York Times–bestselling epic historical thriller.
Born in the United States to an American World War I pilot and a German baroness, twin brothers Max and Harry Kelso are separated when their father is killed in a tragic accident. Their mother returns to Germany to raise Max, while Harry grows up with their millionaire grandfather.
When World...
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"As the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940, Aleida van der Zee Martens escapes to London to wait out the Occupation. Separated from her three-year-old son, Theo, in the process, the young widow desperately searches for her little boy even as she works for an agency responsible for evacuating children to the countryside. When German bombs set London ablaze, BBC radio correspondent Hugh Collingwood reports on the Blitz, eager to boost morale...
11) A bell for Adano
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A young American major, occupying a small Italian town after World War II, helps the townspeople obtain their greatest desire, a new bell.
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Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep & When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies...
14) Teddy's war
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303 pages ; 22 cm
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To Elias Gunnarson, his dad Teddy was part of the Greatest Generation, a man who fought valiantly in World War II, was honorably discharged, married his high school sweetheart, and lived happily ever after. Right? Wrong! The truth, he finds, lies shrouded in an intricately complex web bearing only superficial resemblance to the terrible reality lived by those who battled from the sands of Omaha Beach to the horrors of Dachau. As letters, videos,...
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Everyman's library volume no. 173
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xlix, 710 pages ; 21 cm.
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"This trilogy of novels about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh's career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war too much for him" -- publisher website (August...
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Wings of the nightingale volume 2
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Serving as a flight nurse during World War II, Lieutenant Georgia Taylor finds her comfortable private life thrown into question by her tenuous bond with a pharmacist serviceman who harbors resentment over lingering grievances.
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