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Vivienne de la Mare struggles to provide for her two young daughters and her mother-in-law while her husband is fighting in World War II, and when she falls in love with a German soldier living next door, she must decide if she is willing to risk her personal happiness, and her family's safety, for the life of a stranger.
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English
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Mark Cain's job as deputy director of the Office of Special Investigations has enabled him to track down ex-Nazis who have escaped to America since World War II, but when a mysterious woman asks for Mark's help, he fears his investigation may cause the woman her life.
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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This is the compelling story of the 10,000 German and Austrian nationals who fled Nazi persecution to join the British in their fight against Hitler during the Second World War. Most were Jews but a significant number were political opponents of the Nazi regime and so-called 'degenerate artists'. They arrived in Britain between 1933 and 1939, and at the outbreak of war on 3 September 1939 became 'enemy aliens'. They volunteered to serve in the British...
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The University of Alberta Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"One woman's story of her struggle to survive while imprisoned in a Soviet gulag following World War II. "The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking aim. Slowly I come back." Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of a resourceful woman who survived five grueling years in Russian prison camps: starved, traumatized, and worked nearly to death....
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MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Inspired by real places and events of WWII, Red Sky Over Hawaii immerses the reader in a time of American history full of suspicion and peril in this lush and poignant tale about the indisputable power of doing the right thing against all odds. The attack on Pearl Harbor changes everything for Lana Hitchcock. Arriving home on the Big Island too late to reconcile with her estranged father, she is left alone to untangle the clues of his legacy, which...
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