world war, 1939-1945

Presents photographs, illustrations, diagrams, and fact boxes to detail the history of World War II, and covers the significant people, places, and events from Adolf Hitler's rise to power through the establishment of the United Nations.

Fourteen-year-old Louise keeps a scrapbook detailing the events in her life after her best friend, a Japanese-American girl, and her family are sent to a relocation camp during World War II.

Describes the events and circumstances leading to the June 6, 1944, invasion of Europe at Normandy by Allied forces, written in graphic novel format.

An account, in graphic novel format, of the Battle of the Bulge during World War II in Ardennes, France.

Tells the story of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941, that brought the United States into World War II.

In 1942 after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, twelve-year-old Harry Yakamoto and his family are forced to move to an internment camp where they must learn to survive in the desert of California under the watch of armed guards. Includes section about the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Recounts the author's early years in occupied Holland during WWII as friends, neighbors, and items such as food, clothes, and fuel are taken away by the Nazis, covering his ability to find ways to play while helping his father protect guests from the enemy, and his life on the run with his mother after his father is taken.

When the Nazis invade Hungary, Susan and her sister are sent to a convent in order to protect them from persecution, where they try to adapt to the rules and rituals of a new religion and worry they will be found.

The author reveals a first-hand account of her and her family's experiences when they and other Dutch residents on the island of Java, were captured by the Japanese in 1942 and taken to a prison camp where they spent over three years.

Thirteen-year-old Halina Rudowski narrowly escapes the Polish ghetto and flees to the forest, where she is taken in by an encampment of Jews trying to survive World War II.