by Ieva Neimanas Pipyne (2015)
"Half a Slice of Bread" is the powerful true story of a Lithuanian family caught in the turbulent political and military events of World War II--era Europe from 1941 to 1950. Desperate to escape the oppressive Soviet regime, the Neimanas family, including six-year-old Ieva, leave for Germany in 1941, where they hope to start a new life. Considered to be ethnic Germans by the Nazis, the family leaves with only what it can carry and boards a train toward an unknown fate. But to their horror, upon their arrival they are taken to a foreigner camp, where they are to be "Germanized." They are placed in wooden barracks, witness terrible abuses, and live under constant intimidation. In 1944, they receive permission to return to Lithuania, but their elation quickly turns to dismay when approaching Soviet artillery forces them to flee back the way they came. Little do they know that their struggle to find a safe haven is only just beginning.
Diet Eman with James Schaap
Things We Couldn't Say is the true story of Diet Eman, a young Dutch woman, who, with her fiance, Hein Sietsma, risked everything to rescue imperiled Jews in Nazi-occupied Holland during World War II. Throughout the years that Diet and Hein aided the Resistance--work that would cost Diet her freedom and Hein his life--their courageous effort ultimately saved hundreds of Dutch Jews.
Gerald Astor
"World War II was by far the greatest war in the long bloody history of humankind. By virtually any standard of measure it dwarfs all wars that preceded it. The Greatest War is an American combat history of this war told largely in the words of the American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines, men of what Tom Brokaw has dubbed the "greatest generation," who stood up to and ultimately emerged victorious from the crucible of four years of battle."--BOOK JACKET.
[edited by] Neil Kagan, Stephen G. Hyslop
Personal writings and recollections of Roosevelt, Hitler, and Patton, as well as letters composed by soldiers at battle and diaries of women serving in the military at home, present an absorbing narrative that tells the entire history of the war from several perspectives.
John L. Stewart
"A nineteen-year-old navigator with the illustrious 8th Air Force during World War II ... kept a private journal of each of his 31 missions, along with maps he routinely gathered in briefings."--Jacket.