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Switchboard soldiers : a novel2022
Summary: In June 1917, General John Pershing arrived in France to establish American forces in Europe. He immediately found himself unable to communicate with troops in the field. Pershing needed operators... more »- place hold (0)
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The diamond eye : a novel2022
Summary: Wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son -- but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a... more »- place hold (0)
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The unbroken2021
Summary: Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty is to her fellow conscripts. But now, her company has been sent back to her homeland to stop a... more »- place hold (0)
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Our woman in Moscow : a novel2021
Summary: In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The world is shocked by the family's sensational disappearance. Were they... more »- place hold (0)
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Every day is a gift : a memoir2021
Summary: Daughter of an American father and a Thai-Chinese mother, Duckworth faced discrimination, poverty, and the horrors of war, all before the age of 16. Through these experiences she developed a fierce... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe daughters of Kobani : a story of rebellion, courage, and justice2021
Summary: The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won. In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's... more »- place hold (0)
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Fly like a girl : one woman's dramatic fight in Afghanistan and on the home front2020
Summary: On July 29, 2009, Air National Guard Major Mary Jennings Hegar was shot down while on a Medevac mission in Afghanistan. Despite being wounded, her courageous actions saved the lives of her crew and... more »- place hold (0)
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Sisters of war2020
Summary: Watching the Red Army withdraw from Ukraine in the face of Hitler's relentless advance, Natasha Smirnova realizes her life is about to change forever. As Kiev is cast under the dark cloud of... more »- place hold (0)
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The Black Swan of Paris2020
Summary: A world at war. A beautiful young star. A mission no one expected. Paris, 1944. Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, the chanteuse's... more »- place hold (0)
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The warrior maiden2019
Summary: When Mulan takes her father's place in battle against the besieging Teutonic Knights, she realizes she has been preparing for this journey her whole life -- and that her life, and her mother's,... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickDear Mrs. Bird : a novel2018
Summary: "London, 1940. Emmeline Lake is Doing Her Bit for the war effort, volunteering as a telephone operator with the Auxiliary Fire Services. When Emmy sees an advertisement for a job at the London... more »- place hold (0)
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The award : a novel2016
Summary: Gaelle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France and frightening changes begin. She is shocked and powerless when French gendarmes take away her closest friend,... more »- place hold (0)
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Code name Pauline / memoirs of a World War II special agent2013
Summary: "The as yet unpublished memoirs for young adults of the only female SOE agent to lead a French Resistance network during World War II"--EBOOK
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