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1) Airman
Author
Language
English
Description
In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.
Author
Series
Rome escape line trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. Gestapo boss Obersturmbannführer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war's outcome is far from certain. Diplomats, refugees, and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, at one fifth of a square mile the world's smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome. A small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest is drawn...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The astonishing story of twenty-four British prisoners who used tunnels to break out of a highly fortified Italian castle-turned-prison during World War II. In March 1943, at Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills of Italy, an extraordinary assemblage of middle-aged British POWs were finally ready to execute an escape. The castle, which became a special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini's personal...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 299 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"On August 30, 1942--Zero Night--40 Allied officers staged the most audacious mass escape of World War II. Months of meticulous planning and secret training hung in the balance during three minutes of mayhem as the officers boldly stormed the huge double fences at Oflag Prison. Employing wooden ladders and bridges previously disguised as bookshelves, the highly coordinated effort succeeded and set 36 men free into the German countryside. Later known...
8) Elephant run
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is stranded with his friend Mya, they plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cash McCall was destined to live outside the law. But after serving time in one of the most brutal prisons in the Southwest, he determines to hang up his guns and go straight. However, Cash soon discovers that a man cannot easily escape either his past or his destiny.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ghosts in the fog is the first narrative nonfiction book for young adults to tell the riveting story of how the Japanese invaded and occupied the Aleutian Islands in Alaska during World War II. This fascinating little-known piece of American history is told from the point of view of the American civilians who were captured and taken prisoner, along with the American and Japanese soldiers who fought in one of the bloodiest battles of hand-to-hand...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Can one nurse on a mission of mercy and rebellion turn the tide of WWI? November 1914--The Great War has come to Brussels, and Edith Cavell, Head Nurse at Berkendael Medical Institute, faces an impossible situation. She has sworn an oath to help any who are wounded, under whatever flag they are found. But Governor von Lüttwitz, the ranking German officer, has ordered her and her nurses to also stand guard over the wounded Allied prisoners of war...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Growing up in Derry, Northern Ireland, amid the unspeakable violence of the Troubles, Anderson was accustomed to poverty and fracture. Avoiding British soldiers, IRA operatives, unexploded bombs, and stray bullets, he and his friends explored their hometown with boundless imagination and innocence despite their dire circumstances. But his parents and extended family, Catholics living in Protestant-controlled Northern Ireland, could not evade the persecution....
Author
Publisher
No Starch Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Offering an entertaining twist to learning algorithms, this book uses a detective story to introduce and illustrate computational concepts at a high level, exploring the motivation behind them and their application in a non-computer domain. --
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (approximately 945 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After enduring unspeakable torture, Dean escapes from Hell, rescued by an angel who recruits Sam and Dean into Heaven's battle against Hell for the future of humankind. Amid whispers that a certain Fallen Angel will soon be freed from his prison deep in Hell. If Sam and Dean can't stop Lucifer from walking free, he'll bring on the Apocalypse. Meanwhile, the Winchester brothers reunite and hit the road, battling the supernatural wherever they go. They...
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
448 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Narrates the causes, progression and outcome of the first global war of the twentieth century by telling the stories behind 100 items of material evidence of that cataclysmic and shattering conflict"--Dust jacket.
Series
Indicator volume 280-289
Publisher
Indicator
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
10 Blu-rays (34 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (115 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
English
Description
British director Michael J Murphy cut his teeth on a variety of homemade 8mm shorts and had completed three feature-length productions by the age of eighteen. Over the next five decades, Murphy would go on to make many more films across a variety of genres, dividing his production time between Greece, Portugal, and the UK, with family, friends, and local stage performers becoming his regular cast and crew in exchange for holidays in the sun. Containing...
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