Highlights the contributions in various fields of endeavor of famous men and women from around the world, including Marie Curie, Abraham Lincoln, Rachel Carson, Hokusai, and Martin Luther King.

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Here is a fascinating insight into the influence of the gospel on the lives of people who lived through the World Wars and the events that led up to them. Read about: The Japanese pilot who led the attack on Pearl Harbor The German pastor who was prepared to suffer imprisonment and death for the sake of his faith. The British general given the task of defending Malta against invasion by Hitler and Mussolini The American airman who was converted while a prisoner of the Japanese and who later returned to Japan as a missionary The Jewish girl who came to know Christ as her Saviour while in hiding from the Nazis The American chaplin who witnessed to leading Nazi war criminals on trial at Nuremberg The British secret agent who was the inspiration for 'Q' in the James Bond 007 stories. What did these people, and the others whose lives are told in this book, have in common? During the turbulent events of those momentous years, God was at work in their lives. He brought these thirteen people to trust, know, love and serve the Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore to give themselves to the service of others.

The short story is to-day our most common literary product. It is read by everyone. Not every boy or girl will read novels after leaving school, but every boy or girl is certain to read short stories. It is important in the high school to guide taste and appreciation in short story reading, so that the reading of days when school life is over will be healthful and upbuilding. Here is a collection that is entirely modern. The authors represented are among the leading authors of the day, the stories are principally stories of present-day life, the themes are themes of present-day thought. The students who read this book will be more awake to the present, and will be better citizens of to-day. The great number of stories presented has given opportunity to illustrate different types of short story writing: Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders In The Rue Morgue Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes From The Underground Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis Charles Dickens: The Chimes Ivan Turgenev: Mumu Francis Scott Fitzgerald: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Joseph Conrad: Heart Of Darkness Ambrose Bierce: Chickamauga Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study In Scarlet H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness Nathaniel Hawthorne: Roger Malvin's Burial Guy de Maupassant: Necklace Leo Tolstoy: God Sees The Truth, But Waits Anton Chekhov: The Lottery Ticket Virginia Woolf: The Mark On The Wall Katherine Mansfield: The Garden Party H.G. Wells: The Star Stendhal: Vanina Vanini Honoré De Balzac: The Unknown Masterpiece Mark Twain: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Aldous Huxley: Crome Yellow Ernest Hemingway: Up In Michigan Nikolay Gogol: A May Night O. Henry: The Ransom Of Red Chief Jack London: To Build a Fire

For more than two decades, McCullough has fascinated readers with portraits of exceptional men and women who not only have shaped the course of history but whose stories express much that is timeless about the human condition. From Harriet Beecher Stowe to a young Theodore Roosevelt, the subjects possess a sense of purpose that make for unforgettable reading.