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9780062259271 | Harpercollins, May 10, 2016, cover price $35.00

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9780062441560, titled "The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas 1939-1945" | Lgr edition (Harperluxe, May 10, 2016), cover price $35.00

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Each book focuses on an aspect of World War II through exploration of a wealth of primary source material. A factual presentation of each topic is given alongside personal accounts and case-studies giving the reader an insight into the period. Evidence is explored and assessed throughout each book, which encourages children to debate and evaluate different sources.

Paperback:

9780750279550 | Gardners Books, June 27, 2013, cover price $15.20

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9781404218581 | Rosen Central, September 1, 2008, cover price $30.25 | About this edition: Each book focuses on an aspect of World War II through exploration of a wealth of primary source material.

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Product Description: General Colin Gubbins was in charge of SOE during World War Two. This is the first biography of a man who was destined to live his life in the shadows. A biography of General Colin Gubbins, who was in charge of SOE during World War II...read more

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9781848844216 | Pen & Sword, January 19, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: General Colin Gubbins was in charge of SOE during World War Two.

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Product Description: To survive baling out from a doomed aircraft or a crash-landing in enemy occupied territory certainly required a large element of luck. To then manage to return to Allied shores inevitably needed considerably more good fortune and often the assistance of local patriots and resistance workers...read more

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9781844158775 | Pen & Sword, June 30, 2009, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: To survive baling out from a doomed aircraft or a crash-landing in enemy occupied territory certainly required a large element of luck.

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In wartime Berlin, Cioma Schonhaus discovered a way of turning his talent for graphic design to good use: he forged documents which helped save hundreds of Jewish lives. His first challenge involved painstakingly recreating each of the twelve long and 24 short feathers on German Imperial Eagle so that a pass stood up to scrutiny by Nazi officials.
By Alan Bance (trans), Marion Neiss (editor) and Cioma Schonhaus

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9781862079533 | Granta Books, September 28, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In wartime Berlin, Cioma Schonhaus discovered a way of turning his talent for graphic design to good use: he forged documents which helped save hundreds of Jewish lives.

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Product Description: During the five years from May 1940 to May 1945 several thousand Allied airmen, forced to abandon their aircraft behind enemy lines, evaded capture and reached freedom, by land, sea and air. The territory held by the Germans was immense – from Norway and Denmark in the north, through Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg to the south of France – and initially there was no organization to help the men on the run...read more

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9781906502171 | Grub Street the Basement, February 19, 2009, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: During the five years from May 1940 to May 1945 several thousand Allied airmen, forced to abandon their aircraft behind enemy lines, evaded capture and reached freedom, by land, sea and air.

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Product Description: In Nazi Germany, 20-year-old graphic artist Cioma Schönhaus found a unique outlet for his talent: he forged documents for people fleeing the Reich, ultimately helping to save hundreds of lives. Yet, even as the Gestapo posted his photo in public, he lived a daringly adventurous life, replete with fine restaurants and beautiful women, all the while managing to elude the Nazis...read more

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9780786720583, titled "The Forger: An Extraordinary Story of Survival in Wartime Berlin" | Da Capo Pr, January 7, 2008, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: In Nazi Germany, 20-year-old graphic artist Cioma Schönhaus found a unique outlet for his talent: he forged documents for people fleeing the Reich, ultimately helping to save hundreds of lives.

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By John J. Michalczyk (editor)

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9780820463179 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, February 1, 2004, cover price $51.95

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9781550024838 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, November 20, 2003, cover price $29.99

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A young German-Jewish woman's life is changed overnight when war breaks out in Europe and the Gestapo is suddenly looking for her family, in a compelling biography based on Marianne Strauss's own diary, kept while she was on the run in Nazi Germany. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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9780805063264 | Metropolitan Books, February 1, 2001, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A biography based on the diary of a young Jewish woman on the run from the Gestapo in Nazi Germany describes how she went underground after war broke out and was aided by a remarkable resistance organization.

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9780312420659 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, March 1, 2002), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A young German-Jewish woman's life is changed overnight when war breaks out in Europe and the Gestapo is suddenly looking for her family, in a compelling biography based on Marianne Strauss's own diary, kept while she was on the run in Nazi Germany.

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The story of Britain's secret war of sabotage against the Nazi war machine at the start of World War II is told in vivid detail, recalling secret disguises, elaborate deceptions, bribery, and bomb attacks orchestrated by the Special Operations Executive. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9781585671687 | Overlook Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The story of Britain's secret war of sabotage against the Nazi war machine at the start of World War II is told in detail, recalling secret disguises, elaborate deceptions, bribery, and bomb attacks orchestrated by the Special Operations Executive.

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Product Description: Set Europe ablaze: that was Winston Churchill's order to the Special Operations Executive (the SOE), charged with sabotaging and subverting the enemy during World War II. The undercover agents of this elite group blew up special targets, armed and trained the Resistance, acted as political advisors, and all too frequently gave their lives in the most terrible circumstances...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Francis Cammaerts (introduced by) and Patrick Howarth

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9781842122402 | Phoenix, May 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Set Europe ablaze: that was Winston Churchill's order to the Special Operations Executive (the SOE), charged with sabotaging and subverting the enemy during World War II.

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Product Description: This incisive study of the ethics of war is the only work to focus on the moral dilemmas of resistance and collaboration in Nazi-occupied Europe. Rab Bennett provides a comprehensive guide to the harrowing ethical choices that confronted ordinary citizens as they tried to survive the Nazi onslaught...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780814798607 | New York Univ Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This incisive study of the ethics of war is the only work to focus on the moral dilemmas of resistance and collaboration in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Describes the work of World War II resistance fighters and their struggle against Nazi invaders behind the scenes in France, Greece, Norway, and other countries

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9780896865648 | Crestwood House, November 1, 1992, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Describes the work of World War II resistance fighters and their struggle against Nazi invaders behind the scenes in France, Greece, Norway, and other countries

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Gathers the correspondence between a British foreign correspondent and a German Rhodes Scholar who joined the anti-Hitler resistance and was findly executed by the Nazis

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9780198229087 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 19, 1988, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Gathers the correspondence between a British foreign correspondent and a German Rhodes Scholar who joined the anti-Hitler resistance and was findly executed by the Nazis

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Product Description: Book by Foot, M. R. D.

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9780890936733 | Rev sub edition (Univ Pubns of Amer, January 1, 1986), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Book by Foot, M.

Product Description: Describes the secret activities of six members of resistance movements in Europe and Japan during World War II.

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9780440998006 | Reissue edition (Dell Pub Co, August 1, 1984), cover price $2.25 | About this edition: Describes the secret activities of six members of resistance movements in Europe and Japan during World War II.

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9780531022962 | Franklin Watts, April 1, 1979, cover price $8.90 | About this edition: Describes the secret activities of six members of resistance movements in Europe and Japan during World War II.

Discusses the importance of resistance movements which sprang up in Yugoslavia, France, Russia, Greece, and other countries under German occupation during World War II.

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9780516047980 | Childrens Pr, November 1, 1982, cover price $14.60 | About this edition: Describes the various underground resistance movement that developed in Europe under German occupation

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