underground movements

Provides an exploration of Jewish resistance movements in occupied Poland from 1939 to 1945, detailing their impact on Nazi efforts and how they culminated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Spotlights successes and failures these resistance movements experienced and reveals how they contributed to the founding of Israel after the war.

Profusely illustrated text discusses the underground resistance organizations that operated in Nazi-occupied European countries during World War II.

Discusses the guerrillas of the Balkans who fought against the Nazis during World War II.

With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely.

Uses primary sources such as newspaper articles, broadcasts, propaganda, letters, and diary entries to examine the occupation of large parts of Europe, North Africa, and eastern Asia by Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II, and to look at resistance efforts in the occupied countries, and includes maps, photographs, and a time line.

Examines the German invasion of Denmark during World War II and the efforts of a resistance movement to save Jews from Nazi death camps and expel the Germans.

Josef Schumacher, a pastor in Berlin, is saddened by the increasing influence the Nazi youth movement is having on the young people of his church, so he risks everything to counteract the lies of a Fascist government and the power of the Fuhrer.

Konrad Reichmann, having risen to the rank of Second Lieutenant in the Hitler Youth movement, finds the reality of life on the Russian Front far different from the glory promised by the Third Reich, and turns back to his Christian roots to help him deal with the challenging times.

British operative Felicity "Flick" Clariet, her confidence shaken by a previous disaster, is given the nearly impossible task of recruiting and training a group of six women, to be known as the Jackdaws, to infiltrate and destroy Europe's largest telephone exchange, sabotaging German communications in preparation for D-Day.

Analyzes the field of underground wartime resistance to the Nazis in Europe and explains who the resisters were, how they were organized and some of their achievements.