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In 1935 England, when thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, she becomes the victim of her own imagination, leading her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution.
4) Dunkirk
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
Intense war experience and some language.
Author
Publisher
McElderry
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
A young English girl and her father take their sturdy fishing boat and join the scores of other civilian vessels crossing the English Channel in a daring attempt to rescue Allied and British troops trapped by Nazi soldiers at Dunkirk.
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Series
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English
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Spring, 1940. Following Britain's declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs has been investigating the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. Her investigation leads from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld's most powerful men. When a final confrontation approaches, she must acknowledge the potential cost to her future-- and the risk...
10) Atonement
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1935, 13-year-old Briony Tallis wildly misinterprets the relationship between her sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, childhood friends home from Cambridge. So when her young cousin is assaulted, Briony gives in to her hyperactive imagination and blames the atrocity on Robbie. It is a terrible decision that alters lives and fills Briony with an everlasting sense of guilt.
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Series
Zion chronicles volume 9
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
As Spring 1940 unfolds in Paris, war is inevitable. AP journalist Josephine Marlow is asked to undertake a dangerous journey back into the borders of the Reich--just when the Fuhrer is gathering his forces for another invasion. If she is successful, a child will live. If not, he will die. And many other children, too. French colonel Andre Cahrdon knows that the undefeated Fuhrer will not hold back his Blitzkrieg long from France. But the plan of attack...
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Publisher
HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"La epica historia real de Dunkerque ahora una Gran Pelicula escrita y dirigida por Christopher Nolan, y protogonizada por Kenneth Branah, Tom Hardy y Mark Rylance. En 1940, en el Puerto frances de Dunkerque, mas de 300,000 tropas alliadas atrapadas fueron damaticamente rescatadas de la destruccion a manos de la Alemania Nazi por una extraordinaria evacuacion maritime. La verdadera historia do los soldados, marineros, aviadores y civiles implicados...
13) Dunkirk
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Explores the audacious bid to rescue over 400,000 troops from the British Expeditionary Force besieged on the beaches at Dunkirk, which ranks as one of the greatest maritime evacuations in history. Combines contemporary footage and reenactments to tell the story in 3 episodes.
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
[2005?]
Language
English
Description
Alone (May 1940-May 1941): Though the Battle of Dunkirk successfuly rescues nearly 35,000 Allied troops from certai ndefeat, London's only respite from constant bombing comes when Hitler turns toward Russia.
Barbarossa (June-December 1941): Having blitzkrieged thrugh Europe, the German Panzers plow deep into Russian territory, only to be stopped by a brutal winter and endless mud.
Banzai! (Japan, 1931-1942): Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and brings...
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