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The book tells the story of two sisters in France during World War II and their struggle to survive and resist the German occupation there. The book was inspired by accounts of a Belgian woman, Andrée de Jongh, who helped downed Allied pilots escape Nazi territory. [1] [2] The Nightingale entered multiple bestseller lists upon release. As of ...
The Twins (Dutch: De Tweeling) is a 1993 novel by Tessa de Loo about the sisters Lotte and Anna, who are separated at the age of six when their father dies. The story is set during World War II. In 2002 the book was adapted to a film named Twin Sisters.
Shanghai Girls is a 2009 novel by Lisa See.It centers on the complex relationship between two sisters, Pearl and May, as they go through great pain and suffering in leaving war-torn Shanghai, and try to adjust to the difficult roles of wives in arranged marriages and of Chinese immigrants to the U.S.
World War II is a series of books published by Time-Life that chronicles the Second World War. Each book focused on a different topic, such as the resistance, spies, the home front but mainly the battles and campaigns of the conflict.
A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II is a 2019 young adult non-fiction book by Elizabeth Wein.It tells the story of the three female Soviet aircrew regiments organized by Marina Raskova in World War II, including the regiment of night bombers nicknamed the Night Witches.
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Chapter One. At a German all-girls' summer camp at Seebühl on Lake Bühl (Bohrlaken on Lake Bohren in Cyrus Brooks' translation and Seebühl am Bühlsee in the German original), two nine-and-a-half-year-old girls named Luise Palfy (Lisa Palfy in Brooks' translation) and Lottie Körner (Lottie Horn in Brooks' translation) are surprised to see how identical they look.
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