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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 ...
Salt to the Sea is a 2016 historical fiction young adult novel by Ruta Sepetys. It tells the story of four individuals in World War II who make their way to the ill-fated MV Wilhelm Gustloff. The story also touches on the disappearance of the Amber Room, a world-famous, ornately decorated chamber stolen by the Nazis that has never been recovered.
Children's books about the internment of Japanese Americans (6 P) Pages in category "Children's books set during World War II" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total.
When Heinlein returned to writing after World War II, he sought to diversify beyond "the pulps". In 1946, Heinlein told his agent that his "own propaganda purposes will be best served by writing a series of boys' books." [3] This would simultaneously broaden the audience for science fiction and also put Heinlein into a steady, lucrative market. [4]
Armed Services Editions (ASEs) were small paperback books of fiction and nonfiction that were distributed in the American military during World War II.From 1943 to 1947, some 122 million copies of more than 1,300 ASE titles were published and printed by the Council on Books in Wartime (CBW) and distributed to service members, with whom they were enormously popular.
After the draft was reinstated in the U.S. in 1940, millions of young soldiers found themselves in barracks and training camps, where they were often bored.The head of the Army's Library Section, Raymond L. Trautman, sought to remedy this by purchasing one book per soldier, but when that failed, librarians launched a nationwide book collection campaign.
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler; ... This page was last edited on 17 February 2024, at 08:39 (UTC). ... Category: Books about World War II.
Gertruda's Oath: A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II is a 2009 book (originally published in Israel as ha-Shevu'ah in 2007) by Ram Oren and translated by Barbara Harshav. It follows the story of a Jewish boy, Michael Stolowitzky, and his Catholic nanny, Gertruda Bablinska, and their escape from Poland to Palestine during ...
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