Gold Warriors
Gold Warriors

Author: Peggy Seagrave

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 668

ISBN-13: 1789605237

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In 1945, US intelligence officers in Manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover the gold but to keep its riches secret. These, combined with Japanese treasure recovered during the US occupation, and with recovered Nazi loot, would create a worldwide American political action fund to fight communism. This 'Black Gold' gave Washington virtually limitless, unaccountable funds, providing an asset base to reinforce the treasuries of America's allies, to bribe political and military leaders, and to manipulate elections in foreign countries for more than fifty years.

The Secret of the Soldier's Gold
The Secret of the Soldier's Gold

Author: Franklin W. Dixon

Publisher:

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781590548523

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The police in Portugal ask the boys? Father to help them solve a crime, and the boys get their own case.

Secret Soldiers
Secret Soldiers

Author: Keely Hutton

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published: 2019-06-11

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 0374309043

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A 2020 Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year A 2020 Children's Book Council Notable Social Studies Book for Young People Over a quarter million underage British boys fought on the Allied front lines of the Great War, but not all of them fought on the battlefield—some fought beneath it, as revealed in this middle-grade historical adventure about a deadly underground mission. Secret Soldiers follows the journey of Thomas, a thirteen-year-old coal miner, who lies about his age to join the Claykickers, a specialized crew of soldiers known as “tunnelers,” in hopes of finding his missing older brother. Thomas works in the tunnels of the Western Front alongside three other soldier boys whose constant bickering and inexperience in mining may prove more lethal than the enemy digging toward them. But as they burrow deeper beneath the battlefield, the boys discover the men they hope to become and forge a bond of brotherhood. Secret Soldiers is another stunning story of strength, perseverance, and love from Keely Hutton. This title has common core connections.

The Secret of the Soldier's Gold
The Secret of the Soldier's Gold

Author: Franklin W. Dixon

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2003-12

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 068985885X

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Frank and Joe accompany their father to Portugal, and become immersed in a treasure hunt involving a fortune in buried gold bars.

The War on Gold
The War on Gold

Author: Antony Sutton

Publisher:

Published: 1977-03-17

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781939438126

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The War on Gold is a definitive study of the past, present, and future of the metal that Keynesian economists and political schemers have denounced as a barbarous relic. The war on gold began several centuries ago, when politicians discovered they could print limitless amounts of paper currency for a small fraction of the cost of using gold as money. It has accelerated in recent years...as the U.S. acquired paper debt, deficits, which led to double-dip inflation, and internationalists plotted to create a new world order.

Soldiers, Airmen, Spies, and Whisperers
Soldiers, Airmen, Spies, and Whisperers

Author: Nancy Ellen Lawler

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13:

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The Gold Coast became important to the Allied war effort in WWII, necessitating the creation of elaborate propaganda and espionage networks, the activities of which ranged from rumor-mongering to smuggling and sabotage.

Snow Treasure
Snow Treasure

Author: Marie McSwigan

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 1958

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9780590425377

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Grade Level 5.5, Book# 85, Points 4.

Nazi Gold
Nazi Gold

Author: Douglas Botting

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-01-27

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1780574274

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In 1945, as Allied bombers continued their final pounding of Berlin, the panicking Nazis began moving the assets of the Reichsbank south for safekeeping. Vast trainloads of gold and currency were evacuated from the doomed capital of Hitler's 'Thousand-year Reich'. Nazi Gold is the real-life story of the theft of that fabulous treasure - worth some 2,500,000,000 at the time of the original investigation. It is also the story of a mystery and attempted whitewash in an American scandal that pre-dated Watergate by nearly 30 years. Investigators were impeded at every step as they struggled to uncover the truth and were left fearing for their lives. The authors' quest led them to a murky, dangerous post-war world of racketeering, corruption and gang warfare. Their brilliant reporting, matching eyewitness testimony with declassified Top Secret documents from the US Archives, lays bare this monumental crime in a narrative which throngs with SS desperadoes, a red-headed queen of crime and American military governors living like Kings. Also revealed is the authors' discovery of some of the missing treasure in the Bank of England.

Don't Look Back
Don't Look Back

Author: Achut Deng

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published: 2022-10-11

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0374389713

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In this propulsive memoir from Achut Deng and Keely Hutton, inspired by a harrowing New York Times article, Don't Look Back tells a powerful story showing both the ugliness and the beauty of humanity, and the power of not giving up. I want life. After a deadly attack in South Sudan left six-year-old Achut Deng without a family, she lived in refugee camps for ten years, until a refugee relocation program gave her the opportunity to move to the United States. When asked why she should be given a chance to leave the camp, Achut simply told the interviewer: I want life. But the chance at starting a new life in a new country came with a different set of challenges. Some of them equally deadly. Taught by the strong women in her life not to look back, Achut kept moving forward, overcoming one obstacle after another, facing each day with hope and faith in her future. Yet, just as Achut began to think of the US as her home, a tie to her old life resurfaced, and for the first time, she had no choice but to remember her past.

Red Gold
Red Gold

Author: Alan Furst

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0307432912

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“Nothing can be like watching Casablanca for the first time, but Furst comes closer than anyone has in years.”—Time Autumn 1941: In a shabby hotel off the place Clichy, the course of the war is about to change. German tanks are rolling toward Moscow. Stalin has issued a decree: All partisan operatives are to strike behind enemy lines—from Kiev to Brittany. Set in the back streets of Paris and deep in occupied France, Red Gold moves with quiet menace as predators from the dark edge of war—arms dealers, lawyers, spies, and assassins—emerge from the shadows of the Parisian underworld. In their midst is Jean Casson, once a well-to-do film producer, now a target of the Gestapo living on a few francs a day. As the occupation tightens, Casson is drawn into an ill-fated mission: running guns to combat units of the French Communist Party. Reprisals are brutal. At last the real resistance has begun. Red Gold masterfully re-creates the shadow world of French resistance in the darkest days of World War II.