Bruce Henderson
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
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. Known as the Ritchie Boys, after the Maryland camp where they were trained, these army recruits knew what would happen to them if they were captured....
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"World War II produced so many compelling stories that even students of that momentous conflict are apt to discover we've missed whole vital episodes. Down to the Sea, about a devastating 1944 Pacific typhoon that sank three destroyers and cost 756 American sailors their lives, is just such an eye-opener." - New York Post
From the New York Times bestselling author of Sons and Soldiers, an epic story opening at the hour the Greatest Generation...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of Hero Found comes the incredible true story of one of the greatest military rescues of all time, the 1945 World War II prison camp raid at Los Baños in the Philippines—a tale of daring, courage, and heroism that joins the ranks of Ghost Soldiers, Unbroken, and The Boys of Pointe du Hoc.
In February 1945, as the U.S. victory in the Pacific drew nearer, the Japanese army grew desperate, and its soldiers
...4) Fatal north: adventure and survival aboard USS Polaris, the first U.S. expedition to the North Pole
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Sons and Soldiers comes the incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during the Vietnam War.
In February 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over "neutral" Laos in jungle territory controlled by Pathet Lao guerrillas and North Vietnamese regulars, who captured and held him in a fortified prisoner-of-war camp. Already a legend...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The true story of the Japanese American soldiers who helped fight the war in the Pacific in World War II"--
One of the last, great untold stories of World War II—kept hidden for decades—even after most of the World War II records were declassified in 1972, many of the files remained untouched in various archives—a gripping true tale of courage and adventure from Bruce Henderson, master storyteller, historian, and New York Times...
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"An exciting insider's look at Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo ... NASA's internal politics, disasters, glitches and close calls" by a pioneering astronaut ( Publishers Weekly ). Gordon "Gordo" Cooper was one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, pilot for Apollo X, head of flight crew operations for the United States' first orbiting space station, and the last American to venture into space alone. Stretching from the dawning days of NASA...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This is the dramatic and inspirational first-person story of theoretical physicist, Dr. Ronald Mallett, who recently discovered the basic equations for a working time machine that he believes can be used as a transport vehicle to the past. Combining elements of Rocket Boys and Elegant Universe, Time Traveler follows Mallett's discovery of Einstein's work on space-time, his study of Godel's work on a solution of Einstein's equation that might allow...
Author
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Alone with her new husband on a tiny Pacific atoll, a young woman, combing the beach, finds an odd aluminum container washed up out of the lagoon, and beside it on the sand something glitters: a gold tooth in a scorched human skull. The investigation that follows uncovers an extraordinarily complex and puzzling true-crime story. Only Vincent Bugliosi, who recounted his successful prosecution of mass murderer Charles Manson in the bestseller Helter...
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