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City of Thieves is a 2008 historical fiction novel by David Benioff.It is, in part, a coming of age story set in the World War II siege of Leningrad.It follows the adventures of two youths as they desperately search for a dozen eggs at the behest of a Soviet NKVD officer, a task that takes them far behind enemy lines.
All the Light We Cannot See is a 2014 war novel by American author Anthony Doerr.The novel is set during World War II.It revolves around the characters Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind French girl who takes refuge in her great-uncle's house in Saint-Malo after Paris is invaded by Nazi Germany, and Werner Pfennig, a bright German boy who is accepted into a military school because of his skills in ...
Carrie's War; Carrion Comfort; Catch-22; The Charioteer; Charlotte Gray (novel) Le Chasseur Zéro; The Chequer Board; Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society; Chronicle in Stone; The City of Fading Light; City of the Sun (Maio novel) City of Thieves (novel) The Climate of Courage; Cloudstreet; Code Name Verity; Cold Harbour (book ...
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World War II in Colour is a 13-episode British television docuseries recounting the major events of World War II narrated by Robert Powell. It was first broadcast during 2008 and 2009. The series is in full colour, combining both original and colourized footage. The show covers the Western Front, Eastern Front, North African Campaign and the ...
John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006), has acknowledged a debt to Serraillier's novel: "the book stands out for me as a great children's classic – [it] was my first introduction to the Second World War in fiction, to the horrors of the Nazi era, and the fear that capture could instill in the minds of its young heroes ...
The War That Saved My Life, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, [1] is a 2015 children’s historical novel published by Dial Books for Young Readers.In 2016, it was a Newbery Honor Book [2] and was named to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Books of the Year List with an "Outstanding Merit" distinction and won the Committee's Josette Frank Award for fiction.
On August 15, 1945, above the skies of Tokyo, 1st. Lt. Philip Schlamberg, a 19-year-old Jewish honor student from Brooklyn, was the last American serviceman to die in the US military’s final ...