Several new books have recently been added to the Southport Memorial Library’s World War II collection. The collection contains over 50 volumes covering all aspects of WWII and the Holocaust. The newest additions include:

“The 900 Days, The Siege of Leningrad,” by Harrison E. Salisbury. Tells of the heroic resistance of the citizens of Leningrad during the Nazi siege of the city from 1941 to 1943. Cut off from the rest of the world, hundreds starved or froze to death but refused to surrender.

“Exercise Tiger” by Nigel Lewis

“The Forgotten Dead” by Ken Small. The little known story of a convoy of LSTs torpedoed by German E-boats while they were rehearsing for the D-Day invasion. Several of the LSTs were sunk, leaving over 900 men, dead and alive, floating in the icy waters of the English Channel. One of these men, Jerome Reikes, later became a personal friend. He told how he had floated, clinging to a bit of wreckage, for four hours before being picked up by a rescue ship. He was the last survivor to be rescued.

“Spark of Life” by Erich Maria Remarque. Prisoners in a German concentration camp undergo terrible hardships but find the will to survive.

“A Time to Love and a Time to Die” by Erich Maria Remarque. A German soldier on a three week furlough from the Eastern front finds his home city bombed to rubble. He and his sweetheart try to cram a lifetime into the few days he has left.

“While Six Million Died” by Arthur D. Morse. Reveals this government’s deliberate obstruction placed in the way of attempts to save the Jewish people from Hitler’s “final solution.”