Happy Victory Day!
1. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who was transformed by the war into a man with a mission, a compassionate angel of mercy.
2. Berlin 1942. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do.
3. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city’s zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages.
4. The Diary of a Young Girl…continues to bring to life this young woman, who for a time survived the worst horrors the modern world had seen—and who remained triumphantly and heartbreakingly human throughout her ordeal.
5. Heller’s novel follows the bombadier Yossarian as he struggles to find a way to get out of flying suicide missions in Italy during WWII. The “Catch-22” is, if you’re willing to fly these missions, you’re insane—but if you make the request to be removed from duty, then you must be sane, and therefore eligible to fly.
6. While fighting in Germany during WWII, Kurt Vonnegut was captured and held prisoner, becoming witness to the bombing of Dresden in February 1945, which killed over 23,000 people. His 1969 novel follows the story of the naïve Billy Pilgrim, as he navigates the fog of war, inspired by true stories from Vonnegut’s harrowing experience.
7. Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Literature, All the Light We Cannot See tells the story of a love affair between a French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France. One of the most acclaimed novels of the last 10 years, the novel plays on the human hope for goodness despite the nefarious confines of war and conflict.
8. Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches.
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