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2020., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: MYS Fic Hea Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirited out of London during World War II, she discovers her new manor home is a place of secrets and terror instead of protection"--Provided by publisher.
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2017., Adult, Crown Call No: Fic Rya Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "'Just because the men have gone to war, why do we have to close the choir? And precisely when we need it most!' As England enters World War II's dark early days, spirited music professor Primrose Trent, recently arrived to the village of Chilbury, emboldens the women of the town to defy the Vicar's stuffy edict to shutter the church's choir in the absence of men and instead 'carry on singing.' Resurrecting themselves as 'The Chilbury Ladies' Choir,' the women of this small village soon use their joint song to lift up themselves, and the community, as the war tears through their lives. Told through letters and journals, THE CHILBURY LADIES' CHOIR moves seamlessly from budding romances to village intrigues to heartbreaking matters of life and death. As we come to know the struggles of the charismatic members of this unforgettable outfit--a timid widow worried over her son at the front; the town beauty drawn to a rakish artist; her younger sister nursing an impossible crush and dabbling in politics she doesn't understnd, a young Jewish refugee hiding secrets about her family, and a conniving midwife plotting to outrun her seedy past--we come to see how the strength each finds in the choir's collective voice reverberates in her individual life. In turns funny, charming and heart-wrenching, this lovingly executed ensemble novel will charm and inspire, illuminating the true spirit of the women on the homefront, in a village of indomitable spirit, at the dawn of a most terrible conflict."--From publisher.
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2017., Adult, Zaffre Publishing Call No: NEW MYS Fic Cle Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Tom Wilde Volume: 1Summary Note: 1936. Europe is in turmoil. The Nazis have marched into the Rhineland; in Russia, Stalin has unleashed his Great Terror; Spain has erupted in civil war. In Berlin, a young Englishwoman evades the Gestapo to deliver vital papers to a Jewish scientist. Within weeks, she is found dead in her Cambridge bedroom, a silver syringe clutched in her fingers. When a renowned member of the county set and his wife are found horribly murdered, a maverick history professor finds himself dragged into a world of espionage which, until now, he has only read about in books. But the deeper Thomas Wilde delves, the more he wonders whether the murders are linked to the death of the girl with the silver syringe--and, just as worryingly, to the scandal surrounding King Edward VIII and his mistress Wallis Simpson. Professor Wilde's specialist subject is the Elizabethan secret service. As the scope of the conspiracy is revealed, he must use all the skills he has learnt to save the woman he loves and prevent a massacre.
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By Jenoff, Pam2020., Park Row Books Call No: Fic Jen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Kommandant's girl Volume: 2.Summary Note: 1945. Surviving the brutality of a Nazi prison camp, Marta Nederman is lucky to have escaped with her life. She meets Paul, an American soldier who gives her hope of a happier future. But their plans to meet in London are dashed when Paul's plane crashes. Devastated and pregnant, Marta marries Simon, a caring British diplomat, and glimpses the joy that home and family can bring. Her happiness is threatened when she learns of a Communist spy in British intelligence-- and the one person who can expose the traitor is connected to her past.-- adapted from jacket.
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2023., Zaffre Call No: NEW MYS Fic Cle Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Autumn 1945 - Off the east coast of England, a Japanese sub surfaces, unloads its mysterious cargo, then blows itself to pieces. Former spy Professor Tom Wilde is enjoying peacetime in Cambridge, settling back into teaching and family life. Until a call from senior MI5 boss Lord Templeman brings him out of retirement. A nearby village has been locked down by the military, its residents blighted by a deadly illness. No one is allowed in or out. There are rumours the Nazi machine is still operational, with links to Unit 731, a notorious Japanese biological warfare research laboratory. But how could they possibly be plotting on British soil - and why? What's more, Wilde and Templeman's names are discovered on a Gestapo kill list. And after a series of assassinations, an unthinkable question emerges: could an Englishman be behind the plot?
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c1995, Hutchinson Call No: Fic Har Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A thrilling, sophisticated novel of suspense built around the true story of the frantic British effort in World War II to crack the Nazis' impenetrable Enigma code.
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By Thompson, Keith Green, Jill Horowitz, Anthony, 1955- Heyland, Rob Millar, Gavin Silberston, Jeremy Kitchen, Michael, 1948- Howell, Anthony, 1971- Weeks, Honeysuckle, 1979- Ovenden, Julian Redgrave, Corin Paterson, Bill, 1945- Gonet, Stella West, Samuel, 1966- Thorne, Angela, 1939- Wilby, James Greenlit Productions Paddock Productions Acorn Media (Firm)[2009]., Distributed by Acorn Media Call No: DVD Fic Foyle 3 Edition: Complete U.K. broadcast ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Foyle's war Volume: 3Summary Note: Set in 1941, as World War II rages over Europe, Michael Kitchen stars as detective Christopher Foyle, whose loyalties are put to the test as his investigations uncover unpleasant truths that powerful people would rather keep hidden.
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By Horowitz, Anthony, 1955- Kane, David, 1961- Gwilt, Jeremy Hay, Andy, 1954- Orme, Stuart Giorgetti, Daniel Kitchen, Michael, 1948- McMullan, Tim Weyman, Dan Weeks, Honeysuckle, 1979- Haddington, Ellie Swift, Jeremy, 1960- Vansittart, Rupert Acorn Media (Firm) Eleventh Hour Films (Firm) Otcagon Films (Firm) RLJ Entertainment ITV (Firm) Public Broadcasting Service (U2013., Distributed by RLJ Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Foyle 7 Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Foyle's war Volume: 7Summary Note: As the enormously popular mystery series returns, World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946 London. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new--but no less deadly--threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.
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1999., Adult, Legacy Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Holcroft Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Caine stars as the son of a prominent Nazi who becomes involved in a plot to release money supposedly set aside for Holocaust victims.
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2017., Adult, Harper Call No: MYS Fic Win Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Maisie Dobbs novel Volume: 13Summary Note: "Sunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain's declaration of war with Germany, a senior Secret Service agent breaks into Maisie Dobbs' flat to await her return. Dr. Francesca Thomas has an urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, some twenty-three years earlier during the Great War. In a London shadowed by barrage balloons, bomb shelters and the threat of invasion, within days another former Belgian refugee is found murdered. And as Maisie delves deeper into the killings of the dispossessed from the 'last war,' a new kind of refugee--an evacuee from London--appears in Maisie's life. The little girl billeted at Maisie's home in Kent does not, or cannot, speak, and the authorities do not know who the child belongs to or who might have put her on the 'Operation Pied Piper' evacuee train. They know only that her name is Anna. As Maisie's search for the killer escalates, the country braces for what is to come. Britain is approaching its gravest hour--and Maisie could be nearing a crossroads of her own."--From publisher.
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-- Ken Follett unabridged CD collection.2008., Brilliance Audio Call No: CD Fic Fol Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Lie down with lions: An American man, a French physician, and a English woman are terrorized by the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.
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2021., Pegasus Crime Call No: NEW MYS Fic Cle Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Two old friends meeting in a remote castle in Sweden. They are cousins. One is Prince George, brother of the king of England, and the other Prince Philipp von Hesse, a close friend of Adolf Hitler and a committed Nazi. Days later Prince George is killed in a plane crash and the country weeps, but not everyone believes that it was an accident. When FDR, who happens to be a good friend of the prince, hears the tragic news, he wants to find out exactly what happened. The American OSS doesn't believe the story that MI5 are pedalling. The situation is delicate. Professor Tom Wilde, Cambridge don, is called in to uncover the truth--but what he discovers is far more than he bargained for.
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-- Les voies du destin2014., Adult, Entertainment One Films Canada Inc. Call No: DVD Fic Railway M Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Eric Lomax is a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering from the psychological trauma, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Lomax returns to the scene of his torture and manages to track down his captor from the prison camp in an attempt to let go of a lifetime of bitterness and hate. Based on a true story.
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By Quinn, Kate2021., Adult, William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Qui Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything - beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses - but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park's few female cryptanalysts. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart. 1947. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter--the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now Osla, Mab, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger--and their true enemy--closer...