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Snow Treasure. Snow Treasure is a children's novel by Marie McSwigan. Set in Nazi-occupied Norway during World War II, it recounts the story of several Norwegian children who use sleds to smuggle their country's gold bullion past German guards to a waiting ship, the Cleng Peerson. [1][2][3] Published in 1942, it has been in print ever since. [4]
ISBN. 978-0-425-25286-4. A Higher Call is a 2012 non-fiction book by Adam Makos with Larry Alexander, published Berkley Books. It recounts the story of the Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident of 1943, which took place in the skies of Germany during the Second World War. In it, Franz Stigler, a German Luftwaffe fighter ace flying a ...
Dear America is a series of historical fiction novels for children published by Scholastic starting in 1996. By 1998, the series had 12 titles with 3.5 million copies in print. [1] The series was canceled in 2004 with its final release, Hear My Sorrow. However, it was relaunched in the fall of 2010. Each book is written in the form of a diary ...
The book led to a number of museum exhibitions about Seuss's political work. [14] [15] In 2009, a follow-up volume was published entitled Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War, presenting Seuss's cartoons for PM together with those by other PM artists, including Saul Steinberg. [16]
D804.J3 B73 2003. Flyboys: A True Story of Courage is a 2003 nonfiction book by writer James Bradley, and was a national bestseller in the US. The book details a World War II incident of the execution and cannibalism of five of eight American POWs on the Pacific island of Chichi-jima, one of the Ogasawara Islands (Bonin Islands). This event is ...
Children's books about the internment of Japanese Americans (6 P) Pages in category "Children's books set during World War II" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total.
978-1-4169-7173-3. OCLC. 290477162. Followed by. Behemoth. Leviathan is a 2009 novel written by Scott Westerfeld and illustrated by Keith Thompson. It is the first work in the trilogy of the same name, followed by sequels Behemoth and Goliath. [1] The trilogy is set in an alternative version of World War I in which the Central Powers (known in ...
t. e. The Second World War is a history of the period from the end of the First World War to July 1945, written by Winston Churchill. Churchill labelled the "moral of the work" as follows: "In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Goodwill". [ 2 ] These had been the words which he had suggested for the First ...