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Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
300 inmates and more than 40 guards disappeared from the Alcatraz prison in 1963 without a trace. The government invented a cover story about the prison being closed, due to unsafe conditions, and officially reported that the inmates had been transferred. A young San Francisco police officer tasked with transferring inmates to the island in 1963 is the first to discover that the inmates are actually missing and not transferred. In present day they...
83) Paradise road
Publisher
Fox Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A multinational group of women prisoners in Japan during the War unite to form a vocal orchestra.
84) The escape game
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the Nazis started the bombing blitz of England, Beryl Clarke puts her university education on hold to return to Leeds, care for her mother, and work as a secretary at the Waddingtons game company. While she endures the war at home, her brother James fights the enemy in the air. When he is shot down, injured, and captured, James reunites with a former college friend, American POW Kenneth Bordelon, and they plan to escape the Nazi prison camp....
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
日本語
Description
Naruto is imprisoned in the Blood Prison after attempting to assassinate the leader of the Hidden Lightning Village; a dangerous man appears and informs Naruto and his warrior friends that the end of the world is upon them; Naruto encounters the masked shinobi responsible for the death of his parents; Naruto's son, Boruto is about to enter the Ch�unin exams, while Sasuke comes back to warn Naruto of an impending danger.
86) Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer's Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied death to give their children life.
Eastern Europe, 1944: Three women believe they are pregnant, but are torn from their husbands before
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Publisher
Delphinium Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Solovetsky occupies the island site of a former monastery in the White Sea. Here, hundreds of miles from civilization, and with a skeleton crew of secret-policemen in charge, some prisoners are consigned to all kinds of forced labor and others sit at comfortable desks in administrative or cultural positions. With the brutal winter fast approaching, Tolya Bogomolov, a young mathematician serving a three-year sentence, hopes an acquaintance he's been...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A Lucky Child. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father, Buergenthal managed by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck to survive on his own. Almost two years after his liberation, Buergenthal was miraculously...
Author
Series
Ravenspire volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
Javan Najafai, crown prince of Akram, has spent the last ten years at an elite boarding school, far away from his kingdom. But his eagerly awaited return home is cut short when a mysterious impostor takes his place and no one believes Javan is the true prince.
91) Maze
Publisher
Lightyear Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The date is September the 25th, 1983 -- the Troubles are ongoing. Thirty-eight members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) are being held captive in HM Prison Maze, an impenetrable, escape-proof jail. The odds are against them. The Maze is fortified with 15-foot fences, 18-foot concrete walls, barbed wire and steel gates. Months of planning have lead up to this moment; the moment when these daring men, assisted by some guards, break free...
92) Purgatory
Author
Series
Prison diary volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
A powerfully sensuous and gripping debut laced with suspense, The Cherry Harvest reveals a hidden side of World War II's home front, when German POWs are put to work in a Wisconsin farm community . . . with dark and unexpected consequences It's the summer of 1944 in Door County, Wisconsin, where even the lush cherry orchards and green lakeside farms can't escape the ravages of war. With food rationed and money scarce, the Christiansen family struggles...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a mission to bomb a French bridge and slow down Hitler's retreating army, U.S. bomber pilot Wendell B. Terry miraculously survived a harrowing parachute jump after his plan was hit by enemy fire. Scorched by the burning plane, he landed amid German SS troops and soon found himself in a German prisoner-of-war camp. He shared a cement room with 23 other prisoners. He lived with a dirt floor, no heat to ward off the bitter cold, one small window,
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Language
English
Formats
Description
The film The Way Back, starring Colin Farrell and Ed Harris, is based on this amazing true story.
Twenty-six-year-old cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and sent to the Siberian Gulag. In the spring of 1941, he escaped with six of his fellow prisoners, including one American. Thus began their astonishing trek to freedom.
With no map or compass but only an
...Author
Language
English
Description
In 1939, after Germany invaded Poland, photographer Wilhelm Brasse was sent to Auschwitz to record the camp's atrocities where he faked documents for prisoners and smuggled photos to the outside world, and, when the war ended, refused to destroy his records so we might never forget.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
�2012
Language
English
Description
The last detail: Two hard -boiled career petty officers, Buddusky and Mulhall, are detailed to take a young sailor, Meadows, from a Virgina naval base to a New Hampshire naval prison to serve an eight-year sentence for a trivial offense. Buddusky and Mulhall take a liking to Meadows and are determined to show him a good time on their journey north. their escapades begin in Washington where they narrowly escape a bar fight, then get blind drunk in...
98) The condemned
Publisher
Lionsgate [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen [ed.].
Language
English
Description
Jack Conrad is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is 'purchased' by a TV producer and taken to a desolate island for a fight to the death against nine other condemned killers, with freedom to the sole survivor.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the height of World War I, as battles raged in the trenches and in the air, another struggle for survival was being waged in the most notorious POW camp in all of Germany: Holzminden. A land-locked Alcatraz of sorts, it was home to the most troublesome Allied prisoners--and the most talented at escape. The Grand Escape tells the remarkable tale of a band of pilots who pulled off an ingenious plan and made it out of enemy territory in the biggest...
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