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Stepping stones: a refugee family's journey
By Margriet Ruurs, Nizar Ali Badr. 2016
A young girl and her family are forced to flee their village to escape the civil war that has engulfed…
Syria, and make their way toward freedom in Europe. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2016.Stolen child
By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch. 2010
Nadia begins to realize that the German family she grew up with, and the woman who calls herself Nadia's mother,…
are not who they say they are. She unearths memories of a woman singing her a lullaby, of her real family, but where are they now? This story of a Lebensborn girl - a child kidnapped for her "Aryan looks" by the Nazis in their frenzy to build a master race - reveals one child's fierce determination to uncover her past against incredible odds. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. 2010.Stinger
By John Nichol. 1999
RAF pilot Sean Riever heads for the mountains of Afghanistan. His work with mine-clearance takes him as close to war…
as he wants to get. But when a passenger plane is shot down by a stinger missile, the ghosts of the past return to haunt him. Some descriptions of violence. 1999.Stalin versus me: Volume Ix Of The Bandy Papers (Bandy papers. #9.)
By Donald Lamont Jack. 2005
As 1944 draws to a close, Bandy bobs through the ranks, dodging assassins, women, persecuting pilots, and a parcel of…
ladies' undergarments. He wonders about boozing pal Philby of the SIS, and Stalin, who can't really be out to get Bandy, just because he happens to know that a certain Soviet leader was once a Tsarist agent provocateur. From Normandy to Brussels to Yalta to Moscow, Bandy's career path is as labyrinthine as ever, strewn with bottles, battles, and brass-hat blood-pressure. Sequel to "Hitler versus me". Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2005. (The Bandy papers ; 9)Spring in September (Lansdown)
By Ursula Bloom. 1991
Stalking horse
By Terence Strong. 1993
Iraq invades Kuwait and the world lurches towards war. In Washington DC and London, two governments dread a biological attack…
that will lose them the battle before it begins. However, two intelligence agents are in a position to avert the catastrophe - Avery is a former SAS man; Corrigan is a Delta Force Soldier. Each is on a separate deep-cover assignment to penetrate the world's deadliest terrorist organisation. 1993.SS-GB: Nazi-occupied Britain, 1941
By Len Deighton. 1978
What might have been if Germany had invaded and conquered Britain in 1941. In a ravaged London under Nazi occupation,…
Superintendent Douglas Archer of Scotland Yard, under SS command, starts work on a murder case. He soon finds himself involved with the Free British underground, who despise him for working for the Nazis. Can the Resistance exploit tensions between the German Army and the SS to rescue the King, who is a prisoner in the Tower of London? 1978.Some far elusive dawn
By Emma Drummond. 1988
Colonial Singapore in the 1920s. Four young people struggle to make a life for themselves against a background of uncertainty…
and confusion. Alex seeks any challenge to compensate for his lack of freedom in a privileged home; his sister, Lydia, is over-protected. Martin has ended the war in shell-shock and into their lives comes the emancipated daughter of a risqué novelist. 1988.Spies of the Balkans
By Alan Furst. 2010
Salonika, 1940. To the bustle of tavernas and the smell of hashish, a secret war is taking shape. In the…
backrooms of barbers, envelopes change hands, and in the Club de Salonique the air is thick with whispers. Costa Zannis is the city's dashing chief detective - a man with contacts high and low, in the Balkans and beyond. And as unknown ships and British 'travel writers' trickle through the port, he is a man very much in demand. Having helped defeat Italy in the highlands of Macedonia, Zannis returns to a city holding its breath. Mussolini's forces have retreated - for now - but German sights are fixed firmly on the region. And as the situation in Germany worsens, Zannis becomes involved in an audacious plot - smuggling Jews to Istanbul, through the back door of Europe. The British hear he can penetrate the continent's closed borders, and soon Zannis is embroiled in the resistance, and in a reckless love affair that could jeopardise everything. Strong language. 2010.Spitfire girl
By Lily Baxter. 2011
It is 1940 and 18 year-old Susan longs to do her duty. Her secret ambition is to learn to fly.…
She meets Tony, a flying instructor, and friendship blossoms into love. Susan is forced to flee London and is taken in by a kindly innkeeper. She then receives news that Tony is missing in action. Will she realise her dreams of love and flying? 2011.Sophie's choice (Virago Modern Classics)
By William Styron. 2004
Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in…
a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness, confidant and supplicant. Ultimately, he arrives at the dark core of Sophie's past: her memories of pre-war Poland, the concentration camp and - the essence of her terrible secret - her choice. 2004, c1979.Small wars
By Sadie Jones. 2009
British army major Hal Treherne is dispatched to Cyprus in 1956, taking his wife Clara and their young twin girls.…
There, they fight separate, but equally maddening, battles - Clara as an army wife with babies in an increasingly dangerous land, and Hal on the front lines where, yearning for firefights, he is instead haunted by his lack of control when torture and rape occur at the hands of his own men. After Clara narrowly avoids death, Hal makes a split-second decision with powerful implications for their future. Descriptions of sex, explicit descriptions of violence. 2009.Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade: a duty-dance with death
By Kurt Vonnegut. 1970
Billy Pilgrim, an American captured by the Germans in the Second World War, is billetted in a slaughterhouse in Dresden…
and survives the annihilation of the city by the RAF. He later becomes rich and successful, only to find himself transported to another planet from which he returns radiant and full of desire to preach his message. Strong language and violence. 1970, c1969.Search and destroy
By Dean Hughes. 2017
Recent high school graduate Rick Ward, undecided about his future and eager to escape his unhappy home life, joins the…
army and experiences the horrors of the war in Vietnam. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.Signal, close action! (Richard Bolitho novels. #14.)
By Alexander Kent. 1974
The year is 1798. Commodore Richard Bolitho is sent to the Mediterranean where Napoleon's naval forces are massing, preparing to…
annex Egypt. When Bolitho places his squadron between the Nile and the entire French fleet, the fate of his men and the freedom of his nation hang on the decisions he must make in the awful heat of battle. Sequel to "The flag captain" (DC10517). Followed by "The inshore squadron" (DC30670). 1974. (Richard Bolitho novels ; 14)Shadow on the mountain: a novel inspired by the true adventures of a wartime spy
By Margi Preus. 2013
Shout at the devil
By Wilbur A Smith. 1968
The year:1912. The place: East Africa. The action: ivory-poaching deep in the German-occupied delta of the steaming Rufiji river. Flynn,…
elephant-hunter and hounder of Germans, likes to enjoy the spoils of his sport without too much effort - and the arrival of rich young Sebastian Oldsmith is a windfall he cannot resist. Sebastian is rapidly plunged into not merely an ivory-hunt, but a murderous game of hide-and-seek with Flynn's enemy, the gross German Commissioner, Herman Fleischer. Descriptions of violence. 1968.Sheba
By Jack Higgins. 1994
On the eve of the Second World War, Hitler plans to distract the British while the blitzkrieg takes place. A…
German archaeologist is summoned to Berlin. In Dahrein the Spanish held port on the Gulf Gavin Kane and Ruth Cunningham embark on a search to find Ruth's archaeologist husband who has disappeared. Surviving the desert, they finally reach their destination and stumble upon a conspiracy that could have devastating consequences for the world. 1994.Shattered
By Eric Walters, Roméo A Dallaire. 2006
Fifteen-year-old Ian decides to work at "The Club" for his community service - but it turns out to be a…
soup kitchen in a bad part of town, and he is nearly mugged going there. He's saved by a pipe-wielding homeless man, a former soldier named Jacques who was stationed in Rwanda. Can Ian help Jacques, a man who has lost everything but his nightmarish memories? Some descriptions of violence. For senior high readers. Winner of the 2007 White Pine Award. 2006.Sharpe's prey: Richard Sharpe and the expedition to Copenhagen, 1807 (Richard Sharpe ; #5)
By Bernard Cornwell. 2001
It is 1807 and Sharpe has joined the newly formed Greenjackets but his future in the army seems hopeless. He…
is rescued from disgrace by General Sir David Baird, who needs a 'disposable' man for a mission in Copenhagen. But unless Sharpe can complete the mission, the army will meet disaster. Sequel to "Sharpe's trafalgar"(DC29098); followed by "Sharpe's rifles"(DC29773). 2001. (Richard Sharpe ; 5)