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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
"Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody is now a U.S. congressman, and former CIA agent Carrie Mathison has returned to civilian life. But when a new and potentially devastating terrorist threat emerges, Brody and Carrie's lives become intertwined once again and they resume their delicate dance of suspicion, deceit and desire"--Container.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In war-torn France, Jo McMahon, an Italian-Irish girl from the tenements of Brooklyn, tends to six seriously wounded soldiers in a makeshift medical unit. Enemy bombs have destroyed her hospital convoy, and now Jo singlehandedly struggles to keep her patients and herself alive in a cramped and freezing tent close to German troops. There is a growing tenderness between her and one of her patients, a Scottish officer, but Jo's heart is seared by the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 480
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
日本語
Description
Tells of the journey of the well-intentioned yet naive Kaji from labor camp supervisor to Imperial Army soldier to Soviet POW. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and again finds his morals an impediment rather than an advantage.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
In 1943, Primo Levi, a 25-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. This is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compassion, and even wit, Survival in Auschwitz remains a lasting testament to the indestructibility of the...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Judy, a beautiful liver and white English pointer, and the only animal POW of WWII, truly was a dog in a million. Whether she was dragging men to safety from the wreckage of a torpedoed ship, scavenging food to help feed the starving inmates of a hellish Japanese POW camp, or by her presence alone bringing inspiration and hope to men living through the 20th century's darkest days, she was cherished and adored by the British, Australian, American...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The incredible true story of fighter pilot Joe Moser's war in the sky and secret survival at Buchenwald during World War II. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his 44th combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just...
90) Elephant run
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is stranded with his friend Mya, they plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
92) The last mission
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1979.
Language
English
Description
In 1944 a 15-year-old Jewish boy tells his family he will travel in the West but instead, enlists in the United States Air Corps and is subsequently taken prisoner by the Germans.
Series
Rambo films volume 2
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
John Rambo returns to Vietnam to find and rescue a group of American P.O.W's that have been there since the Vietman War.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Film based on a true story that takes place in 1939 about one man's attempt to save himself and his family when the Nazis occupy Greece and they are sent to the Auschwitz death camp. Each boxing match this middleweight champ fights sends the loser to the gas chamber, and he wonders how he can continue to save himself, his family, and his sanity.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In a collaboration between Private First Class Jessica Lynch and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, the young soldier tells of her life in Palestine, West Virginia and recounts the details of her capture, imprisonment, and dramatic rescue during the Iraq War.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When Ernest Gordon was twenty-four he was captured by the Japanese and forced, with other British prisoners, to build the notorious 'Railroad of Death'. Faced with the appalling conditions of the prisoners' camp and the brutality of the captors, he survived to become an inspiring example of the triumph of the human spirit against all odds.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Italiano
Description
Dov'è la libertà--?: When a man is released from jail twenty years after murdering his wife's lover, he realizes he was happier in prison and tries to go back.
Era notte a Roma: In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger gives sanctuary to three escaped prisoners, compromising the safety of her Communist lover.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In 1917, Evelyn Marche is just one of many women who has been widowed by the war. A British nurse trapped in German-occupied Brussels, she spends her days working at a hospital and her nights as a waitress in her aunt and uncle's café. Eve also has a carefully guarded secret keeping her in constant danger: She's a spy working for a Belgian resistance group in league with the British Secret Service. When a British plane crashes in Brussels Park, Eve...
99) Torpedo run
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A navel officer's insatiable thirst for vengeance puts his command at risk in the WWII action adventure.
100) Escape from Baghdad!
Author
Publisher
Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Baghdad during the US invasion. A desperate American military has created a power vacuum that needs to be filled. Religious fanatics, mercenaries, occultists, and soldiers are all vying for power. So how do regular folks try to get by? If you're Dagr and Kinza, a former economics professor and a streetwise hoodlum, you turn to dealing in the black market. But everything is about to change, because they have inherited a very important prisoner:...
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