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Outrunning the Nazis

the brave escape of resistance fighter Sven S?mme
2017
A nonfiction graphic work that describes the escape of Norwegian spy Sven S?mme from a German warship and his journey to Sweden as he eludes nine hundred German soldiers.

Rene's war

memoirs of French resistance in WWII
Michel Mockers shares his war story from France in 1940-1944.

A whale in Paris

how it happened that Chantal Duprey befriended a whale during the Second World War and helped liberate France
2018
During the German occupation of Paris, Chantal, twelve, spies a whale while fishing with her father in the Seine and is determined to return it to the ocean before the Nazis or starving Parisians can destroy it.
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Juliet Ashton, a thirty-year-old author, writes to her publisher expressing her desire to stop covering the aftermath of WWII, but Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams invites neighbors to write to Juliet with their stories, which puts her off at first but eventually helps her find inspiration for her next book, and her life.
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All about Anne

Anne Frank's life story
The Anne Frank Foundation has compiled the questions asked by children and young people over several years. In this book, find answers to questions asked most frequently about Anne Frank, the persecution of Jews and World War II.
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Tamar

In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family.
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Courage & defiance

stories of spies, saboteurs, and survivors in World War II Denmark
"Critically acclaimed Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson brings to bold life the remarkable story of the Danish resistance and rescue of over 7,000 Jews during WWII. When the Nazis invaded Denmark on Tuesday, April 9, 1940, the people of this tiny country to the north of Germany awoke to a devastating surprise. The government of Denmark surrendered quietly, and the Danes were ordered to go about their daily lives as if nothing had changed. But everything had changed. Award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson traces the stories of the heroic young men and women who would not stand by as their country was occupied by a dangerous enemy. Rather, they fought back. Some were spies, passing tactical information to the British; some were saboteurs, who aimed to hamper and impede Nazi operations in Denmark; and 95% of the Jewish population of Denmark were survivors, rescued by their fellow countrymen, who had the courage and conscience that drove them to act. With her talent for digging deep in her research and weaving real voices into her narratives, Hopkinson reveals the thrilling truth behind one of WWII's most daring resistance movements"--.
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The Maginot Line

myth and reality
1982
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Anne Frank

the diary of a young girl
2015
A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Includes entries previously omitted.

All the light we cannot see

a novel
"A blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II."--Provided by publisher.

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