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102) A boy no more
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
After his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated from Hawaii to California, where he must deal with his feelings about the war, Japanese internment camps, his father, and his own identity.
104) 1945
Series
Publisher
Whirlwind Media, Inc
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Each DVD has a video chapter that tells a year's stories using archival newsreel film. An audio chapter includes a year's top songs, new stories and radio entertainment. The interactive chapter focuses on facts and photos relative to awards, trends and historic events.
105) Nos llamaron enemigo
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
George Takei ha capturado corazones y mentes en todo el mundo con su cautivadora presencia en el escena y su compromiso incondicional con la igualdad de derechos. Pero, mucho antes de alcanzar nuevas fronteras en Star Trek, se despertó de niño, a los cuatro años, para encontrar a su país natal en guerra con el de su padre ... y a su familia entera forzada a abandonar su hogar, rumbo a un futuro incierto. En 1942, bajo órdenes del presidente Franklin...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Focusing on a little-known event in American history that has long been kept quiet, a dramatic account exposes a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II where hundreds of prisoners were exchanged for other Americans behind enemy lines in Japan and Germany. --Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The remarkable untold story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for England, only to be arrested by the British government and sent to an internment camp for "enemy aliens" on the Isle of Man, alongside a renowned group of refugee musicians, intellectuals, artists, and--possibly--genuine spies.
Series
World at war [DVD series] volume 3
Publisher
Pearson Television
Pub. Date
[2001?]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Parabola
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him. In 1941, when he was seventeen, that world was Nazi-occupied France. Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the best. Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two...
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