world war ii

Kit Sutherland moves to Washington, DC to work as an codebreaker at Arlington Hall, but when she stumbles onto a bloody homicide scene, she joins forces with other girl codebreakers to find the man killing Government girls.

"Dorothy Lucas yearned to discover all that she was capable of. After the devastating news of Pearl Harbor, her brothers joined the World War II war effort, but Dorothy wanted to do her part, too. So, she enlisted to serve as a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP). After hours of flight school and roaring engines, Dorothy and her fellow WASPs risked their lives towing targets in the air for the male fighter pilots in training. Through many mechanical scares and smoke-filled cockpits, Dorothy remained brave and committed to her job--defying gravity and defying the odds"--Amazon.

How did the U.S. change during the 1940's? What were the highlights of that decade? What challenges did Americans face? Blitzkreig, Iron Curtain, Josef Stalin, and the first social security checks..

Thirteen year old Korinna, a member of a Nazi youth group, discovers her parents are hiding Jews behind the wall of her bedroom.

A unique book that records the Nazi attempt to destroy the Jews of Europe during World War II. The author hand drew 316 maps for this atlas. Each map traces each phase, country-by-country, of Hitler's attempt to erase the Jews. Describes the anti-Semitic violence of prewar Germany, the conquest of territory in which Jews had lived for centuries, the random killings, the establishment of ghettos, the deliberate starvation of tens of thousands, the deportations, the creation of the death camps, the slave-labor system, the death marches, and the executions---up to the very moment of liberation. Arranged in chronological order, the maps bear witness to the tragedy of the Jewish Holocaust as it unfolds week-by-week. This book also details the deaths of others the Nazis killed---Gypsies, Russian POW's, Spanish republicans, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. The maps also set the Holocaust in the context of the war itself as the Nazi armies advanced throughout Europe.

Keggie Carew attempts to piece together the life of her unorthodox father, Tom Carew, who was a member of the Jedburghs--an elite special operations unit that was the first collaboration between the American and British intelligence agencies during World War II--as dementia begins to take hold of him and talks about how he influenced her own life.

While fishing with his friends off Honolulu on December 7, 1941, teenaged Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese attack and through the chaos of the subsequent days tries to find his father, a naval officer who was serving on the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs fell.