underground movements

Tells the story of American, Varian Fry, who went to France in 1940 in the guise of a refugee worker for the Y.M.C.A. but whose real mission was to get the Jewish artists, writers, musicians, scientists, professors, and politicians who had sought asylum in France out of the country before the Nazi round-up.

Although their father is in a German P.O.W. camp, Paul and Marie are barely touched by World War II in Vichy, France, in 1942. But, when their friend Henri's parents disappear, the children decide to hide their Jewish friend from the Nazis and soon find themselves involved in the French Resistance.

Upon returning to Italy, fourteen-year-old Roberto struggles to survive, first on his own, then as a member of the resistance, fighting against the Nazi occupiers while yearning to reach home safely and for an end to the war.

Recounts how Frans Braal, a resistance worker in Holland, and his family risked their own lives to protect Dutch Jews from Nazi troops during World War II, using the story of a fictional child to tell the true story of the family's bravery.

Decades after being shot down in Occupied Europe, World War II veteran Marshall Stone returns to the crash site, where he finds himself remembering what happened in the days following the crash, when local residents, including a young woman in a blue beret, risked their lives to help him escape from the Nazis, and vows to find out what happened to his rescuers.

After the Nazi occupation of Denmark forces his Jewish friends to flee the country, seventeen-year-old Jesper continues his work in the underground resistance movement. Sequel to "Lisa's War.".

In Nazi-occupied Norway, fourteen-year-old Espen joins the resistance movement, graduating from deliverer of illegal newspapers to courier and spy.

After German forces occupy Denmark during World War II, fifteen-year-old Julie Weinstein and fifteen-year-old Niels Nelson and their friends and families try to cope with their daily lives, finding various ways to resist the Nazis and, ultimately, to survive.

Sent with her younger brother to God?y Island to live with her aunt and grandfather after Germans bomb Norway in 1940, ten-year-old Merit longs to join her parents in the Resistance and when her aunt, a teacher, is taken away two years later, she resents even more the Nazis' presence and her grandfather's refusal to oppose them. Includes historical facts and glossary.

Presents eighteen true stories from World War II that showcase some of the ways in which the Allies used deception to outwit their enemies.