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English
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"Based on a true story, The War Nurse is a sweeping historical novel by USA Todaybestselling author Tracey Enerson Wood that takes readers on an unforgettable journey through WWI France. She asked dozens of young women to lay their lives on the line during the Great War. Can she protect them? Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson must recruit sixty-four nurses to relieve the battle-worn British, months before American troops are ready to be deployed....
Author
Publisher
Twelve, Hatchette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A true story of spies and intrigue surrounding one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the 20th century, investigative reporter Ravi Somaiya uncovers the story behind the death of renowned diplomat and UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld"--
5) The way back
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by an incredible true story... begins in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is further tested when they meet a teenage runaway who begs...
7) Night Watch
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a war veteran who...
Publisher
ITN Sales, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
U.S. Army Air Corp pilots hunt the skies of World War II Europe for the most dangerous weapon the Germans have in the air, the Me262, the first operational jet fighter. Two brothers, one a Thunderbolt pilot and one a B-17 tail gunner, face off against their nemesis on the German side, the first jet ace in history who just might have had a hand in the death of their father in the First World War.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"On August 27, 1943, news broke in the United States that First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was on the other side of the world. A closely guarded secret, she had left San Francisco aboard a military transport plane headed for the South Pacific to support and report the troops on WW2's front lines. Meanwhile, for those ten days, Americans had believed she was secluded at home. As Allied forces battled the Japanese for control of the region, Eleanor was...
10) Allied
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The story of intelligence officer Max Vatan, who in 1942 North Africa encounters French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Reunited in London, their relationship is threatened by the extreme pressures of the war.
11) Bride flight
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Nederlands
Description
A lavish romantic drama that charts the lives of three women who escape the gloom of post-WWII Holland for what they hope will be a better life in New Zealand. Ada, Marjorie, and Esther become fast friends during the long flight taking them to their waiting husbands. Upon arrival, they part ways to start their new lives, but their paths continue to cross with chance meetings resulting in adultery, betrayal, and near tragedy leading up to a reunion...
12) In love and war
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The epic love story about Ernest Hemingway and the romance which inspired him to write his masterpiece "A farewell To arms". A story of desperate love and imminent danger, it chronicles the relationship between the 18-year old Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky, the medical aide who nursed him back to health after a devastating battlefield injury.
Publisher
BBC America
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little know team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at distances of 100 miles away.
15) Counting bullets
Publisher
ITN Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A small group of cavalry soldiers who are pinned down in a canyon. Over the course of a few days, they are forced to face their differences and rely on each of their instincts to survive.
16) Saving Lincoln
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this true story about an epic friendship, U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon foils repeated assassination attempts while serving as President Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
June 6th 1944, resistance bombings relentlessly bombard the enemy causing dissention to rise amongst the Nazi forces. As Operation Valkyrie prepares to assassinate Adolf Hitler, an Allied special ops team prepares to extract the man destined to lead post war Germany. But after Valkyrie fails, everything changes. Now, unlikely allies must work together to stop a group of Nazi Officers from fleeing to Argentina and establish the Fourth Reich.
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reporter Bob Wilton is trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails. He gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent who reveals the existence of a secret, military unit whose goal is to end war as we know it. With unparalleled psychic powers, they can read the enemy's thoughts, pass through solid walls, and even kill a goat by simply staring at it. Now, the founder of the unit has gone missing and the...
20) 1944
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The World War II true-life story of Estonia facing advances from both the Russian Red Army and the German Nazi forces. Shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who, faced with these two opposing armies, found they had to pick sides and fight against fellow brothers. Difficult choices had to be made, not only by the soldiers, but also by their loved ones.