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Larson, Erik

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP CHURCHILL LAR

Allport, Alan

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Here is the many-faceted, world-historically significant story of Britain at war. In looking closely at the military and political dimensions of the conflict's first crucial years, Alan Allport tackles questions such as: Could the war have been avoided? Could it have been lost? Were the strategic decisions the rights ones? How well did the British organize and fight? How well did the British...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Larson, Erik

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B CHURCHILL LAR

Larson, Erik

Summary: In this "portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz, ... Larson shows ... how Churchill taught the British people 'the art of being fearless.' It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it's also an intimate domestic drama set against the backdrop of Churchill's prime-ministerial country home Chequers; his wartime retreat Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 LAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAR

Summary: World War II - Safety film to get Brits to carry gas masks

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1941

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Opie, Robert

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Cavendish Books 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.53 WAR

Gardner, John

Summary: England, June 1944. With Allied forces gaining a foothold after the Normandy landings, Hitler unleashes his most vicious weapon of war yet--the V-1 flying bomb. One of these new weapons lands on a Camberwell convent, killing three nuns. Suzie Mountford and her boss and secret lover Tommy Livermore are sent to investigate. When it's discovered that one of the dead nuns is not what she seems,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAR

Summary: A collection of documentaries made during World War II using actual newsreel footage, chronicling important events of the war.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WOR

Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Breach, Jen

Summary: "An action-packed graphic novel about agents who helped the Allies prepare for D-Day and push the Germans out of France during World War II. In 1942, World War II was growing more and more intense. Germany and its allies had occupied a great deal of Europe-including part of France. With the enemy just a few miles from England, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was determined to help free France....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BRE

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