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Makos, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SMO

O'Donnell, Svenja

Summary: "Growing up in Paris, the daughter of a German mother and an Irish father, Svenja O'Donnell knew little of her family's German past. All she knew was that her grandmother and her mother had fled their home city of Königsberg in the far east of Germany near the end of World War II, never to return. But everything changed when O'Donnell traveled to Königsberg -- now known as Kaliningrad, and part...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IRMEN, INGE ODO

Bascomb, Neal

Summary: Chronicles the efforts of the Allied forces to thwart the Nazi occupiers of Norway in their effort to build an atomic bomb.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.54 BAS

Vinke, Hermann

Summary: Tells the life story of the German army captain who began as a strong supporter of Hitler and changed to a rescuer of Jews and others after witnessing Nazi brutalities.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Star Bright Books 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 HOS

Makos, Adam

Summary: "Clarence Smoyer began the war as a gentle giant, a factory worker from Pennsylvania coal country reluctant to unleash the power of the Sherman tank he crewed. But as his tank platoon fought its way from Normandy to the Rhine and beyond, and he watched his friends cut down one by one, he learned to kill with deadly accuracy and efficiency. His fight would climax in Cologne, in the shadow of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMOYER, CLARENCE MAK

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: History War Makos

Evans, Richard J.

Summary: The final volume in Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, the mobilization of a people's community to serve a war of conquest, and Hitler's campaign of racial subjugation and genocide.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5343 EVA

Rees, Laurence

1 hold on 1 copy

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5343 REE

Stargardt, Nicholas

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Drawing on a wealth of first-hand testimony, the German War is the first foray for many decades into how the German people experienced the Second World War. Told from the perspective of those who lived through it-- soldiers, school-teachers and housewives; Nazis, Christians and Jews-- its masterful historical narrative sheds fresh and disturbing light on the beliefs, hopes, and fears of people...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War Stargardt

Simons, Gerald.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1982

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.53 WOR

Beevor, Antony

Summary: Chronicles the horror of Berlin's fall to the Soviets in 1945, recalling the starvation, exposure, artillery fire, rape, and mass destruction that marked the Red Army's final push on Germany's capital.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 BEE

Alexander, V. S.

Summary: Amid the turbulence of World War II, a young German woman finds a precarious haven closer to the source of danger than she ever imagined--one that will propel her through the extremes of privilege and terror under Hitler's dictatorship.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Alexander 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: P ALE

Bausum, Ann

Summary: "The stories of the children whose families were torn apart as a result of a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in 1944"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 943.086 BAU

McKay, Sinclair

Summary: "A gripping work of narrative nonfiction recounting the history of the Dresden Bombing, one of the most devastating attacks of World War II. On February 13th, 1945 at 10:03 PM, British bombers began one of the most devastating attacks of WWII: the bombingof Dresden. The first contingent killed people and destroyed buildings, roads, and other structures. The second rained down fire, turning the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 MCK

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 MCK

Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: After Wisconsin graduate student Mildred Fish marries brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, she accompanies him to his German homeland, where a promising future awaits. In the thriving intellectual culture of 1930s Berlin, the newlyweds create a rich new life filled with love, friendships, and rewarding work--but the rise of a malevolent new political faction inexorably changes their fate....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHI

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHI

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chiaverini 2019

Simms, Brendan

Summary: "By early December 1941, war and genocide had changed Europe beyond recognition. Nazi Germany had occupied most of the continent and opened concentration camps, while millions of soldiers had died on the front. In Asia, the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War had turned mainland China into a battleground and the Pacific Islands into an armed camp. Still, these far-off conflicts were not...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 SIM

Petrova, Ada.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Richard Cohen Books 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIT

Black, Monica

Summary: "In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through a war-torn Germany. As millions were afflicted by a host of seemingly incurable maladies (including blindness and paralysis), waves of apocalyptic rumors crashed over the land. A messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.4 BLA

McCarthy, Peter

Summary: "The development of German fighting vehicles and tactics is fully charted, and the many myths and misconceptions that have grown up around the Panzerwaffe are exploded. Extensive research, reference to the memoirs of the leading participants, and original new conclusions all contribute to the finely measured assessment of the evolution, exploits and eventual destruction of this superlative...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5413 MCC

McDonough, Frank

Summary: In this second volume of The Hitler Years, an internationally renowned historian chronicles the Third Reich under Hitler's hand, ending with his death and Germany's disastrous defeat.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 MCD

Kershaw, Ian.

Summary: "From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II. Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital question of how and why it was able to hold out as long as it did. The Third Reich did...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5343 KER

Read, Anthony.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1993

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 REA

Gratz, Alan

Summary: It is 1943, and thirteen-year-old Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany in Berlin, is also a spy for the British Secret Service, so he has joined the Hitler Youth, and pretending that he agrees with their violence and book-burning is hard enough--but when he is asked to find out more about "Projekt 1065" both his and his parents' lives get a lot more dangerous.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GRA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GRA

Whaley, Barton.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MIT Press 1973

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WHA

Ullrich, Volker

Summary: "The best-selling author of "Hitler: Ascent" and "Hitler: Downfall" reconstructs the chaotic, otherworldly last days of Nazi Germany. On April 30, 1945, in a bunker deep beneath the Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his newly wedded wife, Eva Braun,killed themselves. But Nazi Germany lived on, however briefly. The subsequent eight days were among the most turbulent in history, witnessing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 ULL

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