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The bush soldiers
By John Hooker. 1984
Five stranded soldiers, two British, three Australian, try to survive as they trek across a bleak stretch of Australia in…
1943 destroying anything that might help the invading Japanese. The story of their adventures and privations alternates with flashbacks to the story of the heroic Sawtell, a dutiful member of the Australian Volunteer Defence Corps. Some strong language. 1984.The burning blue
By James Holland. 2004
Joss Lambert has always been a loner, constrained by a secret from his past, until he finds friendship and solace…
firstly with Guy Liddell, a friend from school, and then with Guy's family, who welcome him into their farmhouse home. Joss increasingly comes to depend upon the Liddells and treats Alvesdon Farm as the one place where he feels not only appreciated but also truly happy. The idyll cannot last. With war looming, Joss is forced to confront the past. He escapes through flying, becoming a fighter pilot in the RAF. But with the onset of war, even the Liddells's world is crumbling. As Joss is fighting for his life in the Battle of Britain, so he begins to fall madly in love with Stella - Guy's twin. 2004.The book thief
By Markus Zusak. 2007
Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to…
a concentration camp. She befriends blond-haired Rudy Steiner, her neighbour obsessed with Jesse Owens. Together Liesel and Rudy steal books - from Nazi book burning piles, from the mayor's library, from the richer people of Molching. By 1943, the Allied bombs are falling, and the sirens begin to wail. For Junior and Senior High readers. Some strong language. 2007.The bronze horseman
By Paullina Simons. 2000
Set in Leningrad in 1941 against Hitler's invasion of Russia, this story tells of the impossible love between a Russian…
girl, Tatiana, and a young officer named Alexander. It is a love that could tear Tatiana's family apart and it carries a secret that could mean death for anyone who hears it. Followed by "The bridge to Holy Cross" (DC33402). 2000.The bridge to Holy Cross
By Paullina Simons. 2003
This novel resumes the tale of Tatiana and Alexander as pregnant eighteen year old Tatiana leaves Russia thinking Alexander is…
dead. She begins her new life in wartime New York City where she finds work, friends and a life beyond her dreams. Alexander, an American trapped in Russia, has been arrested by Stalin's secret police as a traitor and a spy. Will the fate that once pulled them together so forcefully reunite them again? Sequel to "The Bronze Horseman" (DC33084). 2003.The boy in the striped pyjamas
By John Boyne. 2006
Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted…
by his people. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2006.The book of lights
By Chaim Potok. 1981
Portrays the life and inner conflicts of Gershon Loran, a young Jewish rabbi. While serving as a chaplain during the…
Korean War, he must reconcile his deep-rooted beliefs in Judaism with the struggle between light and darkness in a land where Judaism has never existed. 1981.The blue helmet
By William Bell. 2006
Lee wants to be a Tarantula - a member of the biggest, most powerful gang in his neighbourhood. But when…
his initiation goes wrong and the police catch him robbing an auto supply store, Lee's father sends him to live with his aunt. He initially resists Aunt Reena and the customers of her café, but slowly learns to open himself up to his new surroundings. When Lee strikes up an unlikely friendship he is suddenly confronted by the ravages of violence, and is forced to face the consequences of his own aggression. For senior high readers. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2006.The boat (Sven Hassel War Classics)
By Lothar Günther Buchheim. 1999
This is the story of a German U-boat, her commander and crew, as they embark upon yet another hazardous patrol…
in the Battle of the Atlantic. Explicit descriptions of sex. Strong language. 1999. Uniform title: Das Boot.The bloody ground (Starbuck chronicles. #4.)
By Bernard Cornwell. 1996
Nathaniel Starbuck is plunged into the most desperate battle of America's Civil War, the fight at Antietam. He has been…
given a unit of failures and cowards, and must lead his ramshackle unit through a crossfire of hate, envy, murder and ambition. Sequel to "Battle flag" (DC30891). 1996. (Starbuck chronicles ; 4)The bitterest age
By Raymond Kennedy. 1994
As she endures the nightly Allied bombings and the privations of war with her mother and brother in 1945 Germany,…
ten-year-old Ingeborg Maas has faith that her soldier father will return alive from the front. Ingeborg's courage sustains her family through the terrible final days of the war. 1994.The Atomic City girls: a novel
By Janet Beard. 2018
In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn't officially exist. There, June…
joins hundreds of other young girls operating massive machines whose purpose is never explained. When the bombing of Hiroshima brings the truth about Oak Ridge into focus, June must confront her ideals about loyalty, patriotism, and war itself. 2018.The Baltic gambit: an Alan Lewrie naval adventure (Alan Lewrie naval adventure series ; #15)
By Dewey Lambdin. 2009
1801. Captain Alan Lewrie, newly acquitted of slave stealing, takes command of the frigate Thermopylae and heads for the Baltic.…
Lewrie hosts a Russian peace delegation and joins the Battle of Copenhagen. Sequel to "Troubled Waters". Some violence, some strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2009.The angel of Zin
By Clifford Irving. 1984
The Gestapo sends Captain Paul Bach to investigate the murders of two prisoners and a Polish lieutenant at an SS…
camp. Bach begins to realize that he is a guilty party to the policy of extermination. Some strong language. 1984.The assault
By Harry Mulisch, Claire Nicolas White. 1985
In the last months of the German occupation of Holland, a Dutch collaborator is shot in the street where Anton…
Steenwijk's family lives. The body is moved to their doorstep and, in retribution, their house is destroyed by German troops, Anton's parents are taken away and his brother chased and killed. Why did someone move the body and cause the destruction of his family? 1985.The ash garden: a novel
By Dennis Bock. 2001
One of 25 Hiroshima Maidens relocated from post-war Japan to America for corrective plastic surgery, Emiko remains in the U.S.…
as a student, then as a filmmaker. Anton is a German scientist who worked on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, and who married a part-Jewish survivor and refugee. When they meet during the filming of Emiko's documentary, the reverberations caused by the explosion of the bomb are explored, and the true implications of their involvement in that moment are revealed. 2001.The Amber Room
By Steve Berry. 2003
When Judge Rachel Cutler's father dies under suspicious circumstances, he leaves his daughter tantalizing clues to a decades-old secret: the…
Amber Room, an exquisite treasure that was supposedly appropriated by the Nazis when they invaded the Soviet Union. Rachel (with her ex-husband, Paul) heads off to Europe to find out why her father died and to search for his killer. Descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2004, c2003.The amazing story of Adolphus Tips
By Michael Morpurgo. 2005
It's 1943, and Lily Tregenze lives on a farm, in the idyllic seaside village of Slapton. Apart from her father…
being away, and the 'townie' evacuees at school, her life is scarcely touched by the war. Until one day, all 3000 villagers are told to move out of their homes - lock, stock and barrel. Soon, the whole area is out of bounds, as the Allied forces practise their landings for D-day, preparing to invade France. But Tips, Lily's adored cat, has other ideas - barbed wire and keep-out signs mean nothing to her. Frantic to find her, Lily decides to cross the wire into the danger zone to look for Tips herself! Grades 5-8. 2005.That woman
By Helga Moray. 1983
Laura flees to France from the Regency court, after stabbing her lover, and gives birth in poverty to a son.…
When war breaks out between England and France she is determined to spy for her country. While many men are besotted by her, she only loves Ignatius Raphae, a handsome Royalist nobleman who returns unexpectedly to find her exposed as a spy, and in danger of arrest. Descriptions of sex and violence. 1983.The Afghan campaign
By Steven Pressfield. 2006
Matthias joins Alexander the Great's army after it has conquered the Persian empire and is advancing east into Afghanistan on…
its way to the riches of India. He chronicles his coming-of-age as a soldier as he enacts Alexander's scorch-and-burn strategies, experiences the joys and sorrows of a romance with an Afghan girl, and faces the barbarism of the Afghans, his fellow soldiers, and ultimately himself. Some descriptions of violence. 2006.