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42) Rescued by Mao: World War II, Wake Island, and my remarkable escape to freedom across mainland China
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (212 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Death Hunt: Set in the '30s, Mountie Millen (Lee Marvin) is assigned to track down accused murderer Johnson (Charles Bronson), who has escaped in the high passes of the Canadian Rockies. Butch & Sundance: The Early Years: A prequel to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, chronicling the two outlaws' lives in the years before the events portrayed in the hit Paul Newman/Robert Redford movie.
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Journey of German soldier Clemens Forell in his dramatic escape from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. Through bitter cold and life-threatening adventures, Forell is determined to reunite with his family.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
519 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm
Description
"Inspired by a true story, a daring deception plunges a courageous and desperate young woman deep into the horrors of a Nazi POW camp to be with the man she loves. Czechoslovakia, 1944 In the dead of night a farm girl and a British soldier creep through abandoned villages. Izabela and prisoner-of-war Bill have secretly married, and are on the run, searching for Izabela's brother and father, who are fighting the Nazis. The husband and wife have evaded...
46) Pen 33
Author
Series
Ewert Grens thrillers volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Serial killer and child molester Bernt Lund escapes from prison custody, leading Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens to the most disturbing case of his career.
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Description
The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony. He escaped and six months later was heralded in the streets of New York -- the revolutionary hero, back from the...
48) Rescue dawn
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler escapes death after being shot down over one of the most intense front lines in the Vietnam War, his troubles were just beginning. He is taken captive by the Vietnamese Army and is forced to endure a harrowing stint in a Vietnamese prison camp. Dengler and a small band of his fellow captives stage a death-defying escape. Based on a true story.
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