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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation.
With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen:
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2018.
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The true story of a German pastor and Nazi resistor comes to life in the New York Times–bestselling author's acclaimed graphic novel.
As Adolf Hitler's Nazi party gains strength across Germany, the pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer forms a breakaway church to speak out against the complacency of established political and religious authorities. When the Nazis outlaw the church, he escapes as a fugitive. Struggling to reconcile his...
As Adolf Hitler's Nazi party gains strength across Germany, the pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer forms a breakaway church to speak out against the complacency of established political and religious authorities. When the Nazis outlaw the church, he escapes as a fugitive. Struggling to reconcile his...
9) The taster
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Amid the turbulence of World War II, a young German woman finds a precarious haven closer to the source of danger than she ever imagined-one that will propel her through the extremes of privilege and terror under Hitler's dictatorship...
In early 1943, Magda Ritter's parents send her to relatives in Bavaria, hoping to keep her safe from the Allied bombs strafing Berlin. Young German women are expected to do their duty-working for the Reich or marrying...
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"In his signature eloquent prose, backed up by thorough research, Russell Freedman tells the story of Austrian-born Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie. They belonged to Hitler Youth as young children, but began to doubt the Nazi regime. As older students, the Scholls and a few friends formed the White Rose, a campaign of active resistance to Hitler and the Nazis. Risking imprisonment or even execution, the White Rose members distributed leaflets urging...
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Imagination station volume 27
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Over 1 Million Sold in the Series! When kids step into the Imagination Station they travel back in time and across the world with cousins Patrick and Beth. Each book is historically accurate, and readers will grow in their faith and knowledge of history as they race through each unforgettable story. In Refugees on the Run, the cousins meet Lena, a Jewish girl from Lithuania. Lena and her extended family, who are Jews from Poland, are desperate to...
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The bomb that exploded in the "Wolf's Lair"-Hitler's command headquarters-on July 20th, 1944 was the closest any assassination attempt ever came to ridding the world of the Nazis' Führer. Pierre Galante's account of the years that led up to the attempt, and its grim aftermath, offers an illuminating look at how dissent among the German officer corps grew until something had to be done. Conspirator General Adolf Heusinger, who met with Hitler on hundreds...
15) Hunting Hitler
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A & E Television Networks
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©1999
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English
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The story of the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler's life at his military headquaters in Rastenburg in 1944.
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Melville House
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"This never-before-translated masterpiece--by a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble when he wouldn't join the Nazi Party--is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front. With nothing but their grief and each other against the awesome power of the Reich, they...
17) Flowers in the gutter: the true story of the Edelweiss Pirates, teenagers who resisted the Nazis
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Dutton Books
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[2020]
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English
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"The Edelweiss Pirates were a loosely organized group of working-class young people in the Rhine Valley of Germany. They faced off with Nazis during the Third Reich and suffered consequences for their resistance during and after World War II."--
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Viking
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[2019]
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English
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"An enthralling story of one family's extraordinary courage and resistance amidst the horrors of war from the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Rooms. As war swept across Europe in 1940, the idyllic life of Fey von Hassell seemed a world away from the conflict. The daughter of Ulrich von Hassell, Hitler's Ambassador to Italy, her marriage to Italian aristocrat Detalmo Pirzio-Biroli brought with it a castle and an estate in the north...
19) Red Orchestra: the story of the Berlin underground and the circle of friends who resisted Hitler
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Random House
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c2009
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English
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"Tells the remarkable story of the Jewish moguls in Hollywood who established the first anti-Nazi Jewish resistance organization in the country in the 1930s. In April 1939, Warner Brothers studios released the first Hollywood film to confront the Nazi threat in the United States. Confessions of a Nazi Spy, starring Edward G. Robinson, told the story of German agents in New York City working to overthrow the U.S. government. The film alerted Americans...
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