Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII, Hardcover - Sally Deng

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Not final jacket image. An empowering book about three young women who follow their hearts and enrol in pilot courses, eventually flying for their ...

Reducere. This book honors the Tuskegee Airmen - African American pilots knownas the "Red Tails, " who never lost escorted bombers during World WarII. These ...

Reducere. Now finally available in English, this biography of Margarethe Csonka-Trautenegg (1900-1999) offers a fully-rounded picture of a willful and psycho...

Marching across occupied France in 1944, American GI Leroy Stewart had neither death nor glory on his mind: he was worried about his underwear, whi...

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In the end, after 36 months of unrelenting battle on the front lines, the reader sees a true hero emerge from the tormenting nightmare of war as he...

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DescriptionMany stories abound of the daring exploits of the RAF's young fighter pilots defying the might of Hitler's Luftwaffe, and of the dogged ...

July 1918. A band of Allied Royal Flying Corps airmen are determined to escape Germany's harshest POW camp. Their plan will become the most ambitio...

An intimate true account of Americans at war, Days of Steel Rain is an epic drama about an unlikely group of men forced to work together in the fac...

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The stories of three individual careers combine seamlessly to tell the dramatic story of the RAF from the era of biplanes and into the jet age of t...

FORGOTTEN NO MORE. The American people revere their elite combat units, but one of these noble bands has been unjustifiably forgotten--until now. A...

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Reducere. The Night Witches were World War II's female volunteers who made one of the first all-female Night Bomber Regiments of the air forces in the Soviet...

This book tells the true story of Himmler's plan to use prominent WWII concentration camp prisoners as hostages in an attempt to engage the Western...

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Osnat was born five hundred years ago - at a time when almost everyone believed in miracles. But very few believed that girls should learn to read....

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dan KingFirsthand accounts from interviews conducted in Japan with five WWII Japanese Naval aviators. All are veterans of t...

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"A truly inspiring read." --Booklist (starred review) "A solid account of women's contributions as aviators during World War II." --Kirkus Reviews ...

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Reducere. Young Bol Gai Deng (bowl guy) lived in a peaceful Dinka village in southern Sudan-until the night his whole world changed forever. In a government-...

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Contributor(s): Author: Brandon SandersonFrom Brandon Sanderson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radianc...

Reducere. DescriptionIn a tiny town on the coast of Lancashire, Lily Brown is trying to hold her world together.With England in the throes of World War II, h...

Reducere. March 13, 1945. Thea had just given birth to her fourth child at a hospital under blackout. Her husband defended the Vaterland in Berlin, uncertain...

DescriptionMany stories have been told about the famous Lost Boys, but now for the first time, a Lost Girl shares her hauntingly beautiful and insp...

Reducere. Spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space. W...

Reducere. Spanning thirteen years from 1940 to 1953 and set against the epic panorama of WWII, author Annette Oppenlander's SURVIVING THE FATHERLAND is a swe...

Reducere. Making Europe: The Story of the West, Volume II: Since 1550 Developed by a team of authors who have spent many years making history accessible to a...

The Story of Garum recounts the convoluted journey of that notorious Roman fish sauce, known as garum, from a smelly Greek fish paste to an expensi...

Reducere. Description"Hits the mark."--KirkusAn engaging middle-grade nonfiction narrative of the American Indian soldiers who bravely fought in the Civil Wa...

Reducere. Like the tiles in mahjong, friendship takes time and patience to create a beautiful combination. Every month, Mrs. Owl and her neighbors from the w...

Publisher: Regnery HistoryAuthor(s): Mark HagerNumber of pages: 324Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 149 x 192 x 33Cover type: HardbackRedescopera ...

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A 115-year-old man lays on his deathbed as the 2016 US election results arrive, and revisits his life in this moving story of love, fatherhood, and...

From historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a Marine fighter squadron in the South P...