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Despite the bombings that ravage the streets of Shanghai, young Yaya and Tuduo find themselves in the clutches of the infamous gangster Zhu. Tuduo is already quite familiar with Zhu's criminal business intentions, having run the streets for quite some time before the war began, but now he's held prisoner and forced to loot the many deserted homes in the city's upscale neighborhoods. Meanwhile, Yaya is forced to do housework around the criminals' lair,...
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"Imagine you are nine years old. Your best friend's father is arrested, half your classmates disappear from school, and someone burns down the house across the road. Imagine you are ten years old and have to cross a snow-covered mountain range at night in order to escape the soldiers who are trying to kill you. How would you deal with these memories five, ten, or twenty years later once you are an adult? Jones, a relief worker and child psychiatrist,...
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Ballad of Yaya volume 3
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"Shanghai, November 1937. Yaya, the eight-year-old daughter of a diamond merchant, lives a life of luxury in the French Concession in Shanghai. Her one great passion is the piano. While she is preparing for an important audition, her father decides that the family must leave town in the face of the imminent Japanese invasion. The evening before all the family is to leave, stubborn Yaya, unaware of the danger, runs away in an attempt to make it to...
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Powstanie Warszawskie było odważnym zbrojnym wystąpieniem przeciwko okupantowi. Największa bitwa II wojny światowej zaczęła się 1 sierpnia 1944 roku o 17.00 (godzina W), a zakończyła się 3 października, tego samego roku. Powstanie pochłonęło wiele istnień ludzkich - kobiet, mężczyzn oraz dzieci. I właśnie na dzieciach skupia się Agnieszka Cubała w swojej książce "Warszawskie Dzieci '44". Agnieszka Cubała porusza temat życia...
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Explores the experiences of children living in the United States during World War II, including writing V-mail to soldiers, participating in air raid drills, planting Victory Gardens, buying stamps for war bonds, and gathering cooking grease and scrap metal for making bombs.
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The American colonies are embroiled in a struggle for freedom. Susanna Bolling, a brave and resourceful teenage girl, craves independence. While her brothers are off fighting for the Patriots, she longs to do more than tedious household chores and attend spinning bees in sleepy City Point, Virginia. When British General Cornwallis invades her family's Bollingbrook Plantation, she overhears his secret plan to defeat the Patriots. Much to her shock,...
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Traces how the author worked through grief and anxiety by founding the Global Medical Relief Fund to raise money for child war victims, recounting her efforts with the Shriners Hospitals to provide dozens of injured children with free housing and ongoingmedical care.
94) Ivan's childhood
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Criterion collection volume 397
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Russian
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An evocative, poetic journey through the shadows and shards of a boy's war-torn youth, moving back and forth between the traumatic realities of World War II and serene moments of family life before the conflict began.
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"Nostalgic narratives of the 1950s obscure a history of postwar childhood that has more in common with the war years and the sixties, when children were mobilized to fight the Cold War both at home and abroad. This book is about the many ways children and ideas about childhood served the demands of the Cold War."--Provided by publisher.
96) Voces inocentes
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Español
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Set in El Salvador in the 1980s, the story of an eleven-year-old boy and the pressures on his life from the civil war. Based on the true story of screenwriter Oscar Torres's embattled childhood.
97) Tears of Gaza
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Arabic
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"Disturbing, powerful and emotionally devastating, Tears of Gaza transports us into the middle of the 2008 to 2009 bombings of Gaza by the Israeli military at a time when no journalists were allowed in. Filmed by several Palestinian cameramen both during and after the offensive, this powerful film by director Vibeke Løkkeberg focuses on the impact of war on the civilian population."--Choices Video website.
98) Theater of war
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An examination of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage and her children", and the political philosophies the play represents. Preparing for The Public Theater's 2006 production of Brecht's anti-war play, Meryl Streep allows a camera crew to document her rehearsal process and interest in the work. Moreover, the life and times of Brecht himself are followed, most notably the playwrites' escape from Nazi Germany, subsequent exile, testimony to the House...
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Ballad of Yaya volume 8
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English
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"China, 1937: Yaya is almost back in Shanghai where she hopes to finally find her parents. But she doesn't realize the wicked Zhu plans to ransom her for riches! Fortunately, Tuduo is on their trail, and he'll do anything to rescue her first"--Cover, page 4.