Tag: #ww2
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In the fall of 1942, the United States is still reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbor. While the US starts sending troops to the front, the March family of Concord, Massachusetts, grieves their own enormous loss- the death of daughter Beth. Under the strain of their grief, Beth’s remaining sisters’ fracture, each going their…
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Just as the title implies Kathryn Atwood’s books center on sung and unsung heroines during WW2. She has several popular ones like Sophie scholl, Carrie ten boom, Josephine Baker, Irene Sandler and Martha Gelhorn, Nancy Wake, Noor Inayat Khan, and Virginia Hall, but she also shares plenty new ones. Split into seven sections of each…
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Okay this technically isn’t an antique book but I got it at a flea market so sematics. Anyway, hopefully most people know who Miep is, aka Hermine Geis, the woman who helped hide the Frank family in the Secret Annex is WW2. This memoir is told from Miep’s point of view, giving a wider outlook…
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