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In 1943 Copenhagen, ten‑year‑old Annemarie Johansen helps her Jewish friend Ellen Rosen escape Nazi persecution, learning courage and resilience while navigating war‑time hardships.

A 1930s wartime tale of a blind French girl and a German boy whose lives intersect in occupied France, weaving themes of survival, friendship, and the moral choices people make amid World War II.

John Boyne’s 2006 novel follows an unlikely friendship between two boys during the Holocaust, set against the backdrop of Auschwitz.

A Newbery‑Medal‑winning juvenile epistolary novel by Beverly Cleary, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky, about a young writer who learns about family, friendship, and school life through letters.

Eighteen‑year‑old Virginia Simpson faces a sudden family crisis on the brink of college, learning the true meaning of adulthood beyond her plans and childhood romance.

Army Air Force flight nurse Lt. Kay Jobson and C‑47 pilot Lt. Roger Cooper navigate wartime skies across Italy and southern France, balancing duty and growing attraction while evacuating wounded and delivering supplies.

Jack O'Malley, a fearless fireman, faces a dangerous arsonist targeting his district—now tasked with protecting the witness who could expose the killer.

Gene Forrester reflects on a pivotal World War II year spent as roommates with his best friend in a New Hampshire boarding school, exploring friendship, loss, and the transition to adulthood.

In 1944, American naval officer Lt. Wyatt Paxton arrives in London to prepare for the Allied invasion of France. He works closely with Dorothy Fairfax, a "Wren" in the Women's Royal Naval Service. Dorothy pieces together reconnaissance photographs with thousands of holiday snapshots of France--including those of her own family's summer home--in order to create accurate maps of Normandy. Maps that Wyatt will turn into naval bombardment plans. As the two spend concentrated time together in the pressure cooker of war, their deepening friendship threatens to turn to love. Dorothy must resist its pull. Her bereaved father depends on her, and her heart already belongs to another man. Wyatt too has much to lose. The closer he gets to Dorothy, the more he fears his efforts to win the war will destroy everything she has ever loved.

An art dealer in Manhattan uncovers the hidden story behind a portrait of an Austrian violinist who, during the Third Reich, risked everything to smuggle Jews out of Vienna.

In the tense 1980s, shy seven‑year‑old Sarah Zuckerman befriends the nouveau‑rich Jenny Jones of Washington, D.C.; their letters to Soviet Premier Andropov spark a media sensation, but when Jenny dies in a plane crash, ten‑years later Sarah discovers a mystery that forces her to confront the tangled truths of friendship, politics, and loss.

A poetic correspondence between Elspeth Dunn of the Isle of Skye and young Davey Graham of Illinois turns into an intimate bond that endures as World War I drives Davey overseas.

In 1939 an eminent British strategist concluded that technology had rendered future amphibious assaults "almost impossible." Fortunately, a small group of American military officers rejected this conclusion and devised a doctrine for joint amphibious operations that helped bolster America's military force as it entered the global war in 1941. This is the first single source to cover the entire development of U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps amphibious operations during World War II. Most other books on the subject have been written from the perspective of the landing forces. This account describes the whole spectrum of modern seaborne assaults. It covers ships and landing craft, ship-to-shore movement, command relationships, air and gunfire support, mine countermeasures, salvage, and much more. . John Lorelli shows how the tentative beginnings of these innovative tactics, as played out in the Solomon Islands and North Africa in 1942, were later refined to make possible the massive amphibious landings at Normandy, Leyte, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa in 1944 and 1945. Each Allied assault is explored in depth, with the author making full use of his extensive research into oral histories, war diaries, and combat reports. This book is a complete reference that includes planning, tactics, and vivid firsthand accounts, and its informal yet authoritative style will appeal to historians, buffs, and students.

This is a wonderful story of JOB. While fiction it takes the story of his love of God close to the biblical version.

During World War I, London‑born Rosemary Gresham, a former street urchin turned daring thief, is tasked with uncovering whether a wealthy gentleman is loyal to Britain or Germany while helping him research his German ancestry.