In this book, ten scripts derived from highly regarded sources bring World War II to life for students in grades 6-12 and serve as a springboard for further investigation of this pivotal world event.
Valor features the thrilling stories that are the fruit of Mark Lee Greenblatt's interviews with brave American servicemen from twenty-first-century wars.
Apart from the quiet chatter of a few mechanics, who were checking that one aircraft was too badly damaged ever to fly again, there was a shocked silence over the aerodrome as everyone there tried to understand the impossible.
Một ký sự về những hành trình khác nhau của một người cha, từng trốn khỏi Việt Nam sau chiến tranh trên một chiếc thuyền nhỏ để tìm chốn dung thân ở Hoa Kỳ, và cô con gái của ông, người sinh ra ở Mỹ, đã mạo hiểm đến Việt Nam khi trưởng thành.
The gripping, vividly told story of the largest prisoner of war escape in of the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy.
Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of war - every scary, exciting moment - and the bonds of friendship that can never be destroyed.
This vintage book contains a fascinating and detailed biography of the heroic chief of German military intelligence who opposed Hitler at the cost of his own life; Wilhelm Franz Canaris.
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'Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war generation' Dan Snow 'A classic' Mail on Sunday'Astonishing' James Holland Born in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade aged just eighteen and began a life of adventure.
Henry Ossian Flipper (21 March 1856 - 3 May 1940) was an American soldier, former slave, and the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1877, earning a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army.
Plutarch''s Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch''s Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings.
The explosive memoir from ex-MI5 surveillance officer Tom Marcus, I Spy takes you on a non-stop, adenalin-fuelled ride as he hunts down those who would do our country harm.
Transporting the reader to the heart-wrenching times of World War II, Some Sunny Day is an evocative memoir of love and courage in war-torn Asia by Madge Lambert.
Letters from Abu Ghraib, a collection of email messages sent by Joshua Casteel to his friends and family during his service as a US Army interrogator and Arabic linguist in the 202nd Military Intelligence Battalion, is the raw and intimate record of a solider in moral conflict with his duties.
Born to wealth, adventuresome in spirit, shrewd in business, gallant in war, and a beau ideal of his class, Tommy Hitchcock was the epitome of the American hero, a legend even in his own time.
Born to wealth, adventuresome in spirit, shrewd in business, gallant in war, and a beau ideal of his class, Tommy Hitchcock was the epitome of the American hero, a legend even in his own time.
In time for the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the First World War, Private Heller and the Bantam Boysbased on Heller's long-hidden diarytells the tale of a group of privileged yet nave Princeton University students and their big, brawny Midwestern farm boy interloper, Ralph Heller.
William Morgan, a tough-talking ex-paratrooper, stunned family and friends when in 1957 he left Ohio to join freedom fighters in the mountains of Cuba.
An example of highly efficient, warm, human communication, achieved in times of stress, emerges in the remarkable series of letters that constitutes the bulk of this book.
General Bernard Law Montgomery, affectionately known as "e;Monty,"e; exerted an influence on the Canadian Army more lasting than that of any other Second World War commander.
General Bernard Law Montgomery, affectionately known as "e;Monty,"e; exerted an influence on the Canadian Army more lasting than that of any other Second World War commander.
A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812 presents the story of John Norton, or Teyoninhokarawen, an important war chief and political figure among the Grand River Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) in Upper Canada.
A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812 presents the story of John Norton, or Teyoninhokarawen, an important war chief and political figure among the Grand River Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) in Upper Canada.
War and Enlightenment in Russia explores how members of the military during the reign of Catherine II reconciled Enlightenment ideas about the equality and moral worth of all humans with the Russian reality based on serfdom, a world governed by autocracy, absolute respect for authority, and subordination to seniority.
War and Enlightenment in Russia explores how members of the military during the reign of Catherine II reconciled Enlightenment ideas about the equality and moral worth of all humans with the Russian reality based on serfdom, a world governed by autocracy, absolute respect for authority, and subordination to seniority.
