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The great escape
By Paul Brickhill. 2000
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Movie and television tie-insPolice and military, War, World War II
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The Great Escape tells how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner of war camp worked together to…
achieve an extraordinary break-out. Every night for a year they dug tunnels, and those who weren't digging forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes to wear once they had escaped. All of this was conducted under the very noses of their prison guards. When the right night came, the actual escape itself was timed to the split second - but of course, not everything went according to plan... 2000.Black Hawk down: a story of modern war
By Mark Bowden. 1999
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Recreates the U.S. military operation in Mogadishu, Somalia, on October 3-4, 1993, when ninety-nine American soldiers were surrounded and trapped.…
Describes how the planned one-hour mission turned into an overnight fight for survival. Based on journalist's interviews with the soldiers, helicopter pilots, and Somali clan leaders. Bestseller. 1999.The diary of a young girl: the definitive edition
By Anne Frank, Mirjam Pressler, Susan Massotty, Otto Frank. 1997
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Movie and television tie-insBiography, Women biography, Lifestyle, Philosophy, World War II
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This notebook kept by a German-born Jewish girl includes material that was omitted from the first edition in 1947. Begun…
on her thirteenth birthday, the diary is a personal, sometimes humourous, account of years spent with her family in a Dutch attic hiding from the Nazis. After Anne heard a radio appeal about the importance of such papers, she expanded the scope of her entries. High school and older. Uniform title: Achterhuis.The diary of a young girl
By Anne Frank. 1952
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In a remarkable account begun on her thirteenth birthday in 1942, a Jewish girl in German-occupied Amsterdam records her hopes,…
fears, and growing pains during two years of close confinement with her family, hiding from the Nazis in a secret apartment. 1952, c1947. Uniform title: Achterhuis.