San Antonio College Library

"Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, Last Witnesses is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of the memories of those who were children during World War II. These men and women were both witnesses and sometimes soldiers as well, and their generation grew up with the trauma of the war deeply embedded in them--a trauma that would forever change the course of the Russian nation. This is a new version of the war we're so familiar with....

In September 1943, Naples lay devastated by incessant bombardment from Allied planes. The city, under an iron occupation by the Germans, was without food. During the bombardment, the famed scugnizzi, the street boys, of Naples grew increasingly exasperated by the passiveness of their elders. Known for their daring, verve, and enterprise, the boys staged an incredible revolt against the Germans on September 28, 1943. Dragging furniture into the roadways,...

Anneke, a Dutch Jewish teenager, is sent with her family to Theresienstadt, a "model" concentration camp, where she confronts great evil and learns to do what it takes to survive.

Story of Hitler's secret program to breed a master race by selective breeding, and by the wholesale kidnapping of thousands of Nordic-looking children from occupied countries, for the purpose of adding to Germany's breeding stock.

Tuttle, a professor of history and American studies, pioneers an effort to reinvent the way we look at history and childhood and the experiences of ordinary children through the lens of developmental psychology. Here he examines one generation's odyssey from childhood to middle age.

In 1940 seven-year-old Tony Bailey was evacuated to the United States; one of more than 16,000 children sent overseas at a time when a Nazi invasion of England seemed inevitable. He spent four years with the wealthy Spaeth family in Dayton, Ohio, before returning to his parents in Southampton. Evocative, heartfelt, and charming, this is a story of a double childhood, of a boy who became American while never ceasing to be British.