Wednesday, March 25, 2009

WWII in Literature and Film

Films:
Pearl Harbor -- Two friends join the Army Air Corps and experience the horror of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
U-571 -- An American submarine is disguised as German aid in order to capture a highly sophisticated cipher machine that they could use to crack Nazi war codes.
Letters From Iwo Jima -- The story of the battle of Iwo Jima, told from the perspective of the Japanese.
Books:
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli -- The story of a Jewish orphan in Nazi-occupied Warsaw.
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak -- A story about a young German girl in Nazi Germany who steals books from the book burnings and ends up befriending a Jewish man hiding in her basement through a shared love of literature.



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