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British Europe Fiction DVDs Europe History 1918-1945 Fiction Europe History 1945- Ex-police officers Fiction Fugitives from justice Fiction Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei Fiction Journalists France Paris Fiction Ovra (Organization : Italy) Fiction Underground newspapers France Paris FictionKershaw, Ian
Summary: The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back. After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the twentieth century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to Hell and back,' the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.55 KERJudt, Tony.
Summary: The first truly European history of contemporary Europe, from Lisbon to Leningrad, based on research in six languages, covering 34 countries across 60 years, using a great deal of material from newly available sources. The book integrates international relations, domestic politics, ideas, social change, economic development, and culture--high and low--into a single grand narrative. Every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.55 JUDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.55 judLowe, Keith
Summary: Recounts the disorder in Europe after World War II, describing the brutal acts against Germans and collaborators, the anti-Semitic beliefs that reemerged, and the Allied-tolerated expulsions of citizens from their ancestral homelands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.554 LOWBest, Nicholas
Summary: "In the momentous days from April 28 to May 2, 1945, the world witnessed the death of two Fascist dictators and the fall of Berlin. Mussolini's capture and execution by Italian partisans, the suicide of Adolf Hitler, and the fall of the German capital signaled the end of the four-year war in the European Theater. In Five Days That Shocked the World, Nicholas Best thrills readers with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.534 BESHesse, Monica
Summary: "Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HESBotting, Douglas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1983
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.53 WORTaylor, Fred
Summary: "A best-selling historian's chronicle of the dramatic months from the Munich Agreement to Hitler's invasion of Poland and the beginning of World War II. In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe to a massive world war. Drawing on contemporary diaries, memoirs, and newspapers, as well as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 TAYMeyer, Michael
Summary: Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many still believe it was the words of President Ronald Reagan, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! that brought the Cold War to an end. Meyer disagrees, and in this compelling account, explains why.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.0009 MEYFurst, Alan.
Summary: The future of Spain is at stake. Germany and Italy have ensured that Republican forces are starved of weapons and a Franco victory now looks likely. Cristian Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer living in Paris, is a well-connected man. When Ferrar is approached by anti-Franco forces, he readily agrees asked to help smuggle arms into his homeland. Working with de Lyon - an enigmatic man of Slavic descent -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FURFurst, Alan.
Summary: Bulgaria, 1934. The local fascists have just murdered the brother of Khristo Stoianev. Now Khristo is recruited into the NKVD--the Soviet secret police--for special service in the Spanish civil war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FURSummary: "October, 1940. Manchester, England. As valiant Jewish RAF pilot David defends the skies against the Luftwaffe, Harry and Kasia finally arrive home. How will Robina cope with another refugee under roof? When yet another house guest arrives -- Sir James, a civil servant on official business -- he looks set to beguile his host, but will Kasia be charmed as well? Meanwhile, in Berlin, teenager...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV WORSummary: Summer 1939. Harry, a translator at the British Embassy in Warsaw, is falling in love with Polish waitress Kasia. When German tanks roll into Poland, and Britain declares war on Germany, Harry and Kasia face terrible choices. With her life in grave danger, can Harry help her, and if he can, how will he ever explain himself to Lois Bennett, the girl he left behind in Manchester?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Wo 1Frankland, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: I.R. Dee 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.085 FRADavies, Norman
Summary: A leading historian re-examines World War II and its outcome. Davies asks readers to reconsider what they know about World War II, and how the received wisdom might be biased or incorrect. He poses simple questions that have complicated and unexpected answers. For instance, Can you name the five biggest battles of the war in Europe? Or, What were the main political ideologies that were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.534 DAVFurst, Alan.
Summary: Arriving in Paris on the eve of the Munich Appeasement in 1938, Hollywood star Frederic Stahl is unwittingly entangled in the region's shifting political currents when he discovers that his latest film is linked to the destinies of fascists, German Nazis, and Hollywood publicists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Furst 2012Airth, Rennie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIRLang, Michele.
Summary: "Lang combines historical and urban fantasy to create a parallel world full of witches, vampires, angels, and demons on the eve of WWII. In Budapest, rebellious 20-year-old Magda is the last in the line of powerful Jewish Lazarus witches, but she has resisted her unique magical heritage, spending her time as assistant to one of the city's leading vampires. Younger sister Gisele may lack the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANTregillis, Ian.
Summary: It's 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly normal man gets caught in between. Raybould Marsh is a British secret agent in the early days of the Second World War, haunted by something strange he saw on a mission during the Spanish Civil War: a German woman with wires going into her head who looked at him as if she knew him. When the Nazis start running...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TREAirth, Rennie
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Publisher / Publication Date: RB Large Print 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M AIRFurst, Alan.
Summary: In the back alleys and glittering salons of Europe, there is a thin line between survival and betrayal, as Soviet NKVD agents and the Nazi Gestapo confront each other in a brilliant duel of espionage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURFurst, Alan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press : Bath, england 2006
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Summary: Andre Szara, a Polish journalist who becomes a spy for the Soviet Union in the late 1930s, is ordered to complete many tasks of espionage in Paris. Through Szara's character, the beginnings of World War II are revealed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FURFurst, Alan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FURKrimstein, Ken
Summary: When I Grow Up is New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's new graphic nonfiction book, based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish teens on the brink of WWII-found in 2017 hidden in a Lithuanian church cellar. These autobiographies, long thought destroyed by the Nazis, were written as entries for three competitions held in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021