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41) South Pacific
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A nurse is among the American forces waiting for World War II to arrive on an isolated Pacific Island where she finds love with a mysterious French planter. At the same time, a Navy officer falls under the spell of an island girl and the warm tropical sea breezes.
43) Casablanca
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
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Description
The story of a struggle among individuals who have sought refuge in Casablanca after fleeing Nazi occupied Europe.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It's a job usually reserved for men, but in the war, those...
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies.
Java Island, 1941
Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb to fall. Her charmed life on Java—living with other Dutch families—had always been peaceful, but...
Java Island, 1941
Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb to fall. Her charmed life on Java—living with other Dutch families—had always been peaceful, but...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of the struggle for Okinawa through the eyes of combatants on both sides: Private Clay Adams, Admiral Chester Nimitz, General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., and General Mitsura Ushijima, the Japanese general in charge of defending the island.
Publisher
Pioneer
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on actual reports of Japanese submarines patrolling the Pacific during WWII, it depicts events that transpire following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In the tradition of "October Sky" and "Stand by Me", this drama follows the life of four ten-year-old California boys and their perilous journey to self-discovery.
49) Father Goose
Series
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
A beachcomber living on a South Sea island during World War II works as a spotter for the Navy. When he rescues a ship full of a teacher and seven schoolgirls, his life is complicated.
50) World War II
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronologically presents significant events of World War Two, from the Munich Agreement of 1938 to the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Film based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, 8 December 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity...
52) Secret honor
Author
Series
Honor bound volume 3
Language
English
Description
The third in a series of novels about World War II espionage in Germany and Argentina follows the activities of a German general and his son who are working toward the assassination of Adolf Hitler, and Cletus Prade, a rogue agent with the OSS who is trying to keep himself and the German agents alive until their goal is achieved.
55) WWII in HD
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Featuring rare color archival footage, takes a detailed look at life on and off the front lines through the diaries kept by soldiers during World War II.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of United States Marine Corps operations in the Pacific Theater during World War II, featuring stories told by veterans. In this DVD you'll learn the true story of the boys who answered the call of duty, a call that took them into combat against the toughest opponent in America's history; the Empire of Japan. Across fire-swept beaches, in trackless jungles, on rugged coral ridges, the Marines of World War II kept going. Every...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A debut novel for fans of Sarah Perry and Kate Morton: when a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirited out of London during World War II, she discovers her new manor home is a place of secrets and terror instead of protection"--
59) Ceremony
Author
Language
English
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Description
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolution. Tayo's quest leads him back to the Indian past and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Working as a public relations hotline consultant for a once-prestigious culinary magazine, Billie Breslin unexpectedly enters a world of New York restaurateurs and artisanal purveyors while reading World War II letters exchanged between a plucky 12-year-old and James Beard.
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