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Librarians Russia Fiction Soviet Union Soviet Union History 1939-1945 Drama Soviet Union History German occupation, 1941-1944 World War (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Soviet Union World War, 1939-1945 Germany World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, Russian World War, 1939-1945 Soviet Union World War, 1939-1945 Soviet Union FictionBarrow, Randi G.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Ivan has escaped from the siege of Leningrad, but when the town he has taken refuge in is occupied by Hitler's troops, he sees his chance to help the partisans he has met--and to rescue two German shepherd puppies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BARSheinkin, Steve
Summary: Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 623.4 SHERees, Laurence
Summary: The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants. This compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of thirty years' work - examines the two tyrants during the Second World War, when Germany and the Soviet Union fought the biggest and bloodiest war in history. Yet despite the fact they were bitter opponents, Laurence Rees...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5343 REEYiddish Glory (Musical group)
Summary: These songs tell the story of resistance during the darkesh chapter of European Jewish history. Yiddish Glory marks the first time they have been performed in over 70 years.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Six Degrees 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN YIDChristie, William
Summary: ""A single spy--in the right place and at the right moment--may change the course of history." Alexsi Ivanovich Smirnov, an orphan and a thief, has been living by his wits and surviving below the ever-watchful eye of the Soviet system until his luck finally runs out. In 1936, at the age of 16, Alexsi is caught by the NKVD and transported to Moscow. There, in the notorious headquarters of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRStein, R. Conrad.
Summary: Describes the nearly 900-day siege of the Baltic port city of Leningrad, during which more than one million Russian civilians died from stravation, cold, and German shells.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1983
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Summary: "Drawing on ambitious new research in European and U.S. archives, Stalin's War revolutionizes our understanding of World War II by moving its epicenter to the east. Hitler's genocidal ambition may have helped unleash Armageddon, but as McMeekin shows, thewar that emerged in Europe in August 1939 was the one Stalin wanted, not Hitler. So, too, was the Pacific war of 1941-1945 the direct result...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIT Press 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WHAPetrova, Ada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Richard Cohen Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HITSummary: World War II - Soviet advance on Berlin
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1945
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Miroshnichenko, Viktoria
Summary: Two young women struggle to rebuild their lives amidst a devastated Leningrad in 1945.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BEAAlexandra, Belinda.
Summary: "From internationally bestselling author Belinda Alexandra comes a sweeping, emotional journey that depicts vividly the powerful lifelong bond between mothers and daughters"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEQuinn, Kate
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUIRijckeghem, Jean-Claude van
Summary: "On January 27, 1962, a concert at the Maly Theatre in Leningrad is interrupted by a gunshot and an ex-state prisoner is arrested. At the police station, the mysterious gunman recalls the early summer of 1941... When the German army begins its invasion of Soviet Russia, four children are evacuated to the countryside: Maxim, the son of a senior Communist Party official; Pyotr, the son of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dead Reckoning 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RIJQuinn, Kate
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC QUICopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC QUISummary: When Veronica's lover, Boris, goes to war, she moves in with Boris' family. His cousin seduces her and out of guilt she marrys him. Unhappy in her marriage and still in love with Boris she leaves her husband to wait for Boris to return. Later she learns Boris has been killed in the war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CRASummary: A 12-year orphan boy works for the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II, undertaking dangerous reconnaissance missions behind enemy lines.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IVADelaney, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arms and Armour 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 DELAleksievich, Svetlana
Summary: "Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, War's Unwomanly Face is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of stories of women's experiences in World War II, both on the front lines, on the home front, and in occupied territories. This is a new, distinct version of the war we're so familiar with. Alexievich gives voice to women whose stories are lost in the official narratives,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 ALECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 ALESummary: In the spring of 1942, German troops advanced deep into the Soviet Union en route to Stalingrad. Hitler seriously misjudged the tenacity of the Red Army and was convinced that the city could be conquered before winter. Ordinarily foot soldiers, inadequately clothed and without sufficient food, struggled just to stay alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN STALitvin, Nikolai.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 LITMann, Chris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 MANBethell, Nicholas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1977