The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II, Paperback - Judith M. Heim

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Judith M. HeimannNovember 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, ...

Reducere. AS the twentieth century breathes its very last, with Britpop at its zenith, twenty-seven-year-old A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning h...

Reducere. Praise for The Rescue ""Steven Trent Smith grapples boldly with several big subjects: the Japanese occupation of the Philippines; the capture of Ja...

Four young men in a tiny lifeboat brave a dreadful storm to save dozens of lives in this illustrated chapter book adaptation (for readers 6-9) of t...

Reducere. The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the concentration camp, Buna-Monow...

Reducere. The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon Schechter attends to a diverse ar...

Six-year-old Lia loves to build sandcastles at the beach and her biggest problem is her shyness and quiet, birdlike voice-until prime minister Muss...

Reducere. On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape...

Reducere. This adaptation for young readers of The Finest Hours: The True Story of the US Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Case...

During World War II, some 10, 000 American bombers and fighters were shot down over Europe. Of the crews aboard, 26, 000 men were killed, while 30,...

*A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!* The New York Post calls The Last Fighter Pilot a "must-read" book. From April to August of 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin and ...

Reducere. The Tuskegee Airmen Chronology: A Detailed Timeline of the Red Tails and Other Black Pilots of World War II provides a unique year-by-year overview...

Award NameYalsa Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction for Young AdultsAward categoryYoung Adult NonfictionExcellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults F...

Reducere. "One of Ten Best History Books of 2021." --Smithsonian Magazine For fans of The Boys in the Boat and The Storm on Our Shores, this impeccably resea...

Reducere. An inspiring true story about one girl's escape from the Holocaust to become a concert pianist against all odds, made popular by Mona Golabek's acc...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of B...

DescriptionAs the first botanical history of World War II, Plants Go to War examines military history from the perspective of plant science. From v...

Reducere. Fourteen-year-old Lisa Jura was a musical prodigy who hoped to become a concert pianist. But when Hitler's armies advanced on pre-war Vienna, Lisa'...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism, highlighting the contributions a...

Reducere. In this inspiring account of the Tuskegee Airmen--the country's first African American military pilots--historian J. Todd Moye captures the challen...

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Reducere. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military pilots in the United States armed forces. Flying bombers and fighters, they completed ...

Reducere. The people of Denmark managed to save almost their country's entire Jewish population from extinction in a spontaneous act of humanity - one of the...

Reducere. THE NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the contr...

Publisher: Walker Books LtdAuthor(s): Michael RosenNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 14Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Publisher: Craven Street BooksAuthor(s): Russell N LowIllustration(s): 179 b/w photosNumber of pages: 404Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 22...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ben MacintyreNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 3Cover type: Paperback ...

Reducere. Due to Enemy Action tells for the first time a World War II story that spans generations and straddles two centuries, a story that begins with the ...

Reducere. Mere months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a volunteer group of American airmen to the Far East, convinced...

Reducere. On Dee Branch's first date with Johnnie Oliver, a fourth-generation funeral director, she knew she was in for a unique relationship when he had to ...

Inna Wolkovich Gardner Nichols' story is not a recount of the horrors of war--for those stories have already been written. Her story is a true pers...

Weaves an exceptional and thrilling hidden history of an ordinary girl who became one of the OSS's most daring spies in World War II before marryin...

Reducere. Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most...

Reducere. One of the Last Great Memoirs of the Greatest Generation: A Tennessee Back-Hills Boy Comes of Age on the Battlefields of Nazi GermanyThis memoir is...

Reducere. DescriptionKnown as Fritz to his German spy-handlers and Zig-Zag to the British secret service, Eddie Chapman was a man of many faces. While his ea...