True Stories of the First World War
Title | True Stories of the First World War PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Dowswell |
Publisher | Usborne Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | 9780794507213 |
A collection of thrilling adventure stories of the First World War. Ideal for reluctant readers, as well as adults.
True Adventure Stories
Title | True Adventure Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Dowswell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Adventure and adventurers |
ISBN | 9780746058428 |
This compilation includes 30 true stories of heroism, desperation, courage and daring; from the first exploration of Everest to the story of the real Indiana Jones.
True Stories of World War I
Title | True Stories of World War I PDF eBook |
Author | Nel Yomtov |
Publisher | Capstone Classroom |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2012-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1429693444 |
"In graphic novel format, tells the stories of six men who fought for their countries during World War I"--Provided by publisher.
War Hospital
Title | War Hospital PDF eBook |
Author | Sheri Lee Fink |
Publisher | PublicAffairs |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 2004-12-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0786745754 |
In April 1992, a handful of young physicians, not one of them a surgeon, was trapped along with 50,000 men, women, and children in the embattled enclave of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. There the doctors faced the most intense professional, ethical, and personal predicaments of their lives. Drawing on extensive interviews, documents, and recorded materials she collected over four and a half years, doctor and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink tells the harrowing--and ultimately enlightening--story of these physicians and the three who try to help them: an idealistic internist from Doctors without Borders, who hopes that interposition of international aid workers will help prevent a massacre; an aspiring Bosnian surgeon willing to walk through minefields to reach the civilian wounded; and a Serb doctor on the opposite side of the front line with the army that is intent on destroying his former colleagues. With limited resources and a makeshift hospital overflowing with patients, how can these doctors decide who to save and who to let die? Will their duty to treat patients come into conflict with their own struggle to survive? And are there times when medical and humanitarian aid ironically prolong war and human suffering rather than helping to relieve it?
The 100 Best True Stories of World War Ii
Title | The 100 Best True Stories of World War Ii PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. Casey |
Publisher | Literary Licensing, LLC |
Pages | 898 |
Release | 2011-10-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781258150044 |
Additional Authors Include Robert Blake, C. S. Forster, MacKinlay Kantor, And Many Others. With Thirty-Two Illustrations.
Best Little Stories from World War II
Title | Best Little Stories from World War II PDF eBook |
Author | C. Brian Kelly |
Publisher | Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Pages | 445 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1402254857 |
The untold stories of bravery, triumph, and redemption in the depths of the darkest world war. Behind the great powers, global military conflict, and infamous battles are more than 100 incredible stories that bring to life the Second World War. During the six years of war were countless little-known moments of profound triumph and tragedy, bravery and cowardice, and good and evil. These amazing and unbelievable stories of brotherhood, redemption, escape, and civilian courage shed new light on the war that gripped the entire world. Experience the action through the eyes of people like: Lieutenant Jacob Beser, who was aboard both the Enola Gay and Bock's Car and felt the force of the shockwave that nearly destroyed the planes after dropping the H-bombs that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Professor William Miller, who collapsed during a death march of POWs in Germany and was saved by the same man who had rescued him from what would have been a fatal car wreck in Pennsylvania five years earlier. The brave civilians who answered the British Admiralty's call to help rescue an army from Dunkirk during the height of a dangerous battle and sailed small fishing boats into relentless German fire, ultimately saving 335,000 men from This is the perfect book for any history buff looking for the untold stories of military and civilian daring during World War 2.
First Light
Title | First Light PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Wellum |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2018-05-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0241984335 |
Two months before the outbreak of the Second World War, eighteen-year-old Geoffrey Wellum becomes a fighter pilot with the RAF . . . Desperate to get in the air, he makes it through basic training to become the youngest Spitfire pilot in the prestigious 92 Squadron. Thrust into combat almost immediately, Wellum finds himself flying several sorties a day, caught up in terrifying dogfights with German Me 109s. Over the coming months he and his fellow pilots play a crucial role in the Battle of Britain. But of the friends that take to the air alongside Wellum many never return.