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The jewish brigade by marvano

11/23/2021

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When the German forces surrendered at the end of World War II, a select unit of Jewish Soldiers, British and Palestinian, became an unofficial unit known as The Jewish Brigade. These soldiers made detours during their official missions in order to hunt down elite Nazis or save any Jewish survivors of the Concentration Camps. This story focuses on Leslie Toliver. Toliver and his Palestinian friend, Ari, rescue a girl named Safaya from a church where a former SS official was acting as a priest. Ari and another British officer covertly rescue truckloads of Jewish civilians from the Russian city of Graz before it comes under British control because they feared Anti-Semitism that would make like difficult or impossible for those survivors. The Jewish civilians are trying to make their way to Palestine, where the U.N. had a planned Jewist State.  Later, Toliver supports the Jewish forces in Palestine fighting for their own state. He and Safaya are reunited, but now, Safaya is a soldier fighting for her people against the Arabs in Palestine who oppose the partition of their country.


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The Photographer of Mauthausen by salva Rubio

12/17/2020

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Illustrated by Pedro J. Colombo, colored by Aintzane Landa

This story is based on true events of the life of Francisco Boix, a prisoner of war interned at Mauthausen.

Boix is a Spaniard and a newspaper photographer and communist who is captured in France and sent to several camps before ending up at Mauthausen. For a while, Francisco works as a translator, tasked with translating the insults German soldiers hurl at the prisoners. Later, Francisco is moved up to working in the photography lab at the camp, where he discovers that the SS are meticulously documenting the deaths of prisoners, but staging them and classifying them as suicides or escape attempts. Despite the dangers to his life and the life of those in the camp, Francisco decides it is exceedingly important to get the negatives of these photos out of the camp to show the world what the Nazis were really doing in these extermination camps.  After the war, Francisco participates as a witness in the Nuremberg trials, but he finds that most people cannot fathom the photos so many risked their lives to save.


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Great Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century  by Jean-Yves Delitte and Giuseppe Baiguera

8/8/2020

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​This graphic novel presents three the major naval battles: the Battle of Tsushima, the Battle of Jutland, and the Battle of Midway. 

In the Battle of Tsushima, the Russian Baltic Fleet is ordered to reinforce the fleet at Port Arthur, but their way is blocked by the English control of the Suez Canal.  By the time they make it around Africa, the Japanese have decimated the forces at Port Arthur.  The Japanese navy deals another blow at the Straight of Tsushima as the Russian fleet tries to sneak through on their way to Vladivostok.

The Battle of Jutland was a showdown between the British Royal Navy and the German Kaiserliche Marine.  This was one of the final battles of World War I, and helped the British reaffirm their supremacy over the seas, despite the heavy losses dealt to them here by the Germans.

The Battle of Midway is one of the most famous battles in World War II.  In this chapter, four pilots, friends since childhood, are separated from their post at Pearl Harbor and reassigned to different areas.  One ends up at Midway, flying ancient planes in a vain attempt to stop the Japanese fleet.  At a critical moment, the Americans break the Japanese code and find out that they plan to attack the base at Midway.  The American forces lay a trap for the Japanese fleet, and turn the tide of the War in the Pacific.


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Smedley by Jeff Mccomsey

3/6/2020

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Smedley Butler was a colorful U.S. Marine involved in American war exploits from the Boxer Rebellion to World War I.  He won two medals of honor for his service, only one of nineteen men in the history of the medal to do so.  Towards the end of his career, he became an outspoken critic of the Hoover Administration during the Great Depression, and tried to lend his voice to the veterans of World War I who were suffering and starving in the Great Depression.  This graphic novel follows Smedley through a Hooverville in Washington D. C. on the day of a great speech as he talks with veterans and shares stories of his time in battle.  The narration is largely told through flashbacks of Smedley and the other veterans of the camp.  


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CHURCHILL: A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY BY VINCENT DELMAS

3/1/2020

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Illustrated by Christophe Regnault and Alessio Cammardella 
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In this title, Delmas presents the major important points of Winston's life, starting with his childhood and ending with the end of World War II. Along the way, we see Churchill enter parliament, command the Royal Navy, and rise to Prime Ministership.





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