Author : Killian Jordan
Publisher : Life
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 2002-04
Category : History
ISBN :
Presents touching stories that showed America's indomitable spirit as the United States fought for life and liberty during World War II.
Author : Michael J. Tougias
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 150110683X
The 1952 Coast Guard mission to save the crews of two oil tankers that were torn in half by the force of one of New England's worst nor'easters.
Author : Jennifer Millikin
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 2017-10-12
Category :
ISBN : 9780996784559
Two lives. One hour. A lifetime consequence. I believe in choice, not fate. I chose to nurse a broken heart at the kitschy country bar that night. I chose to let Isaac Cordova buy me a drink. I chose to spend one hour with a near stranger in an attempt to soothe my pain. No last names, no details about our lives, just one hour where I was allowed to forget, and then we would never see each other again. But was it a choice when I ran into him five years later? I needed help, and he was the only person equipped to give it. Our instant attraction doesn¿t feel like much of a choice either, but it doesn't matter. Everything has changed. Now my choices impact other people.And what will I choose? Do I keep Isaac out?Do I dare to let him in?
Author : Gabrielle McDonald-Rothwell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 22,20 MB
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1445661659
The untold story of the female British secret agent forgotten by history.
Author : Christopher Catherwood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1510720316
Who was Winston Churchill? Even fifty years after his death, he is one of the most iconic figures in British history. As a young man he was a maverick journalist; his many positions in politics before 1940 marked him as a courageous but foolhardy man. Yet it is Churchill’s record in war, which has recently been questioned, that confirms his genius as a military commander and national leader—someone who understood the dangers of Nazi Germany before 1939 and someone uniquely capable to lead the empire through the turmoil of the Second World War. Christopher Catherwood argues that it was Churchill’s stand in 1940-41 that saved Britain and that only he was able to bring together the allies that eventually defeated Hitler in 1945. Catherwood has produced a challenging yet lively reassessment of the life and career of Winston Churchill, lion of British history and flawed hero.
Author : Michael J. Tougias
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,2 MB
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250137531
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 the New York Times bestseller The Finest Hours. On the night of February 18th, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has even seen, two oil tankers off the shore of Cape Cod are torn in half by the force of the seas. For the men on board, survival seemed impossible. What follows is a harrowing Coast Guard rescue in a tiny lifeboat, where four young heroes beat the odds and bring more than thirty stranded sailors to safety. This first book in the True Rescue chapter book series is a fast-paced, uplifting story that puts newly independent readers in the middle of the action. Christy Ottaviano Books New York Times bestselling author Michael J. Tougias adapts his histories of real life stories for young readers in his True Rescue Series, capturing the heroism and humanity of people on life-saving missions during maritime disasters. Illustrated Chapter Books for ages 6-9: True Rescue: The Finest Hours True Rescue: A Storm Too Soon Young Readers Adaptations, for ages 9-14 The Finest Hours (Young Readers Edition) A Storm Too Soon (Young Readers Edition) Into the Blizzard (Young Readers Edition) Attacked at Sea (Young Readers Edition)
Author : Robert La Du
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1683488016
This work describes the monumental accomplishments of the World War II shipyards in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. Working twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, they built and launched thousands of vessels—Liberty ships, Victory ships, tankers, aircraft carriers, submarine chasers, and many kinds of landing craft—to help defeat the Axis powers and preserve the way of life of the free world. Robert La Du viewed firsthand these activities from his home overlooking shipyards on the Willamette River. His father worked at Albina shipyard, his sister worked at Henry Kaiser's Swan Island shipyard, and he himself, as a high school student, worked nights at Commercial Iron and Steel shipyard. These experiences inform and enhance the pages of Her Finest Hour.
Author : Lissa Evans
Publisher : Random House
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0552774715
Longlisted for the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction.
Author : Jennifer Millikin
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2018-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780996784580
Ember I was eighteen when Noah Sutton entered my life. He was destined for greatness, and I could barely scrape enough money together to help my mother pay our rent. We fell in love. A summer of pushing limits, breaking rules, and living in moments I thought would last forever. None of that stopped him from leaving. Noah All my life I had one passion, one goal, a singular pursuit. Then Ember happened. A free spirit, a girl who didn't need music to dance. She filled my rigid world with the very thing I didn't know it was missing. I've always regretted leaving her. What's the point of realizing a dream if she isn't there to share it with? Getting her back won't be easy. She's moved on. My whole life has been one big competition, and it just so happens I've never accepted defeat. Game on.
Author : Gregory A. Fossedal
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 38,33 MB
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0817992030
William L. Clayton was "the principal architect of American post-war foreign economic policy" (Newsweek), yet his seminal contributions to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the Marshall Plan, and the Truman Doctrine have been largely ignored over the past four decades. This gap in the story of free-world cooperation is filled by Gregory Fossedal's vivid biography.
