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1) Betrayed
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
World War II espionage drama set in Nazi-occupied Holland. Dutch Colonel Pieter Deventer (Gable) trains Carla Van Oven (Turner) for a mission, and makes the mistake of falling in love with her.
Author
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
435 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Takes the readers from the final days of the Chinese emperors to the dying era of the British Empire, with a young man's perilous journey through the betrayals of war and into manhood.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Mi-ja and Young-sook are old enough to begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook's differences are impossible to ignore. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator, and she will forever be marked by this association. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother's position leading the...
Author
Language
English
Description
It’s 1940 and Hannie Schaft is a nineteen-year-old law student living in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands with ambitious goals for her future. But dreams die in wartime, and Hannie’s friends are no longer safe as fascism rises in her country. Hannie discovers her own untapped ferocity—wearing lipstick and heels to lure powerful Nazis close and assassinate them, and bombing munitions factories. As humanity collapses around her, Hannie finds a chosen...
Publisher
Kino Film
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
[Widescreen presentation].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In Paris during the brutal winter of 1942, Sophie, a 20-year-old pianist, leaves constant hunger and deprivation behind when she is hired as accompanist to the beautiful, gifted and privileged classical singer, Irene Brice. In time, Sophie becomes a self-effacing martyr who develops a love-hate relationship with Irene, and in always deferring, misses her own chance for happiness.
Publisher
Shanachie
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (650 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen part documentary from the Military Channel that focuses on the surprising collaborations that went on between Adolph Hitler's Nazi regime and those that shockingly helped their rise to power.
10) The fifth column
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"February, 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. In New York City, twenty-two thousand cheering Nazi supporters pack Madison Square Garden for a raucous, hate-filled rally. In a Hell's Kitchen bar, Charles Mossman is reeling from the loss of his job and the demise of his marriage when a group draped in Nazi flags barges in. Drunk, Charlie takes a swing at one with tragic results and a torrent of unintended consequences follows. Two years later....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hitler said, "I am convinced that propaganda is an essential means to achieve one's aims." Enlisting Europe's aristocracy, international industrialists, and the political elite in Britain and America, Hitler spun a treacherous tale everyone wanted to believe: he was a man of peace. Hitler's aristocrats became his eyes, listening posts, and mouthpieces in the drawing rooms, cocktail parties, and weekend retreats of Europe and America. Distrustful of...
12) Evil for evil
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifty Browning Automatic Rifles have been stolen from a US Army base in Northern Ireland. His “uncle” Ike Eisenhower sends Billy to recover the weapons, which might be used in a German-sponsored IRA uprising. Bodies begin to accumulate as Billy finds unexpected challenges to his Boston-Irish upbringing and IRA sympathies. There are rogues on both sides, he learns.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 388 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A revealing biography of Florence Gould, fabulously wealthy socialite and patron of the arts, who hid a dark past as a Nazi collaborator in 1940s Paris. Born in turn-of-the-century San Francisco to French parents, Florence moved to Paris at the age of eleven. Believing that only money brought respectability and happiness, she became the third wife of Frank Jay Gould, son of the railway millionaire Jay Gould. She guided Frank's millions into hotels...
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (251 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Through interviews with participants and newsreel footage, examines the occupation of France by the Germans during World War II as it occurred in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand. Concentrates on the themes of collaboration and resistance.
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Few issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But as William A. Blair shows in this engaging history, the way politicians, soldiers, and civilians dealt with disloyalty varied widely. Citizens often moved more swiftly than federal agents in punishing traitors in their midst, forcing the government to rethink legal practices and definitions. In reconciling the northern...
Author
Series
Eastern European studies volume no. 2
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Series
Criterion collection volume 385
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistance's chiefs is given away by a traitor and interned in a camp.
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