Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns (WWI Centenary Series)
by Halsey Davidson
The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory (WWI Centenary Series)
by Margaret Vandercook
#cincodemayo (Edizione Italiana) (Parallel Universe List, #111)
by I D Oro
"In August 1939 Genevieve makes an impulsive decision not to get on train to take her to boat back New York and must spend the duration of World War II with her grandmother in a small village in Alsace, France, where she becomes involved with the French resistance"--
Lost Cause Unabridged CD Audiobook (Seven (the Series))
by John Wilson
An exceptional and moving novel about the power of the imagination, illustrated by the winner of the Kate Greenaway medal.An exceptional and moving novel about the power of stories and the imagination from the publisher of A Monster Calls. December 1941. Britain is at war. Emmaline has been evacuated away from the bombs to Briar Hill Hospital in Shropshire. When she gets there she discovers a secret. It’s not to be shared, not to be told to anyone, even her friend Anna. But she’ll tell you. This...
It’s 1944. In the city of Cassino, in Italy, close to the Monte Cassino, is Wojtek, an extraordinary bear with military experience. He is a traveller and a honey lover, whose passion in life is to taste the best types of honey that each country that he visits has to offer. As he arrives to Italy, he encounters devastated hills and, he quickly discovers that the region’s bees are in danger, and that, soon there will be no more honey. Wojtek decides to fight the enemy, and he rallies his squads in...
A funny and moving story of life during the First World War, told through the eyes of schoolboy Archie Albright.When 10-year-old Archie Albright is given a scrapbook for his birthday in April 1914, he thinks he'll fill it with comics, souveniers and funny stories about his family. But then, on 3 August 1914, war breaks out, and his life changes for ever. Archie tells the story of the First World War from his point of view, filling his scrapbook with anecdotes about life in London's East End, new...
Clearing the Seas: Or the Last of the Warships (Classic Reprint)
by Donal Hamilton Haines
A Vietnamese child remembers wartime and her relationship with her grandfather, the village herb doctor.
Billy's no kid, he's eight today and watching the boys in the park playing football and cheering his team, Chelsea. But Billy has memories of his mother struggling to keep the family going. But most of all he can remember 1939 when he was picked to play for Chelsea.
The World War I battle for control of the Dardanelles strait was fought mainly on Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, with countless casualties. In Gallipoli Guns, we see the battle being fought from two points of view: the defending Turks, and the attacking troops. The fighting on the peninsula lasted through most of 1915. It was a campaign of bravery, heroism, foolishness and tragedy. The Anzac troops landed on the wrong beach but fought valiantly against overwhelming odds. The Turkish troops, led...
David and the Mighty Eighth
by Marjorie Hodgson Parker and Marjorie Parker
Ages 9 to 12 years. Based on a true story, this historical fiction recounts a young British boy's adventures and the forging of a friendship with an American pilot and his crew. The friendly airmen with the United States' Eighth Air Force, "The Mighty Eighth" give the boy hope when Hitler's Nazis seem unstoppable. This coming-of-age account teaches that despite the horrors of war, something good can be created from the worst of times and confirms the importance of faith, family, and freedom, an...
In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.