Purnell, Sonia
Summary: "The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman--rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg--who talked her way into the spy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOILLOT, VIRGINA PURCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom GoillotMakos, Adam
Summary: Adapted for young adults from the New York Times best-seller, this gripping true account of a WWII American tank gunner, who met his destiny in an armor duel and forged an enduring bond with his enemy, brings to life the perils of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SMODemetrios, Heather
Summary: "To say Virginia "Dindy" Hall was ambitious would be an understatement. She was that girl at your high school who makes everyone else look like a slacker, no matter how hard they're working. But how many of them can say they've been on Nazi Germany's Most Wanted list? At a time when most women were expected to becomes wives and mothers, Virginia craved adventure. And with the world gearing up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 GOIWarren, Andrea
Summary: "A biography of Norman Mineta, from his internment as a child in Heart Mountain Internment Camp during World War II, through his political career including serving in Congress for ten terms during which time he was instrumental in getting the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 passed which provided reparations and an apology to those who were interned"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House 2019