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(0)Bruce Henderson
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Language
English
Description
As Jewish families were trying desperately to get out of Europe during the menacing rise of Hitler's Nazi party, some chose to send their young sons away to uncertain futures in America, perhaps never to see them again. As these boys became young men, they were determined to join the fight in Europe. In 1942, the U.S. Army unleashed one of its greatest secret weapons in the battle to defeat Adolf Hitler: training nearly 2,000 of these German-born...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The true story of one of the greatest military rescues of all time. In February 1945, as the U.S. victory in the Pacific drew nearer, the Japanese army grew desperate, and its soldiers guarding U.S. and Allied POWs more sadistic. Starved, shot, and beaten, many of the 2,146 prisoners of the Los Baños prison camp in the Philippines--most of them American men, women and children--would not survive much longer. Deeply concerned about the half-starved...
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Description
The true story of one of the greatest military rescues of all time. In February 1945, as the U.S. victory in the Pacific drew nearer, the Japanese army grew desperate, and its soldiers guarding U.S. and Allied POWs more sadistic. Starved, shot, and beaten, many of the 2,146 prisoners of the Los Ba©łos prison camp in the Philippines--most of them American men, women and children--would not survive much longer. Deeply concerned about the half-starved...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 293 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of Navy pilot Dieter Dengler who led and organized an escape from a P.O.W. camp in the Laotian jungle and returned to his aircraft carrier, emaciated and ill, six months after being shot down.
7) Fatal north: adventure and survival aboard USS Polaris, the first U.S. expedition to the North Pole
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
viii, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
English