The "unwritten" final chapter of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl tells the story of the time between Anne Frank's arrest and her death through the testimony of 6 Jewish women who survived the hell from which Anne Frank never returned.
War is hell, but it can also be hilarious. The title refers to the ubiquitous graffiti that US servicemen scrawled in bizarre and unlikely places; a joke that everybody was in on. While there is nothing remotely funny about the war itself, it's clear that some of the hardships endured in that conflict were made more bearable by generous doses of humor.
The stories of the 712th Tank Battalion not only make for powerful reading, but they show how ordinary men performed extraordinary feats of courage and heroism under the deadliest of conditions.
The author, Murray Soskil, is the recipient of two Silver Stars, a Bronze Star, and six Battle Stars for service in southern France and Germany with the 3rd Infantry Division. His memoir is testimony to the bravery of American servicemen in the face of evil.
The author's third book contains short stories of boys on B-17 Flying Fortress crews in deadly missions with the Eighth Air Force in World War II and stories of his own teenage combat experiences as radio/gunner on twenty missions with the Mighty Eighth.
An unforgettable portrait of the determination of the human spirit. If this story of espionage and survival were a novel, readers might dismiss the Shackleton-like exploits of its hero as too fantastic to be taken seriously.
For ages 10 and up.
Beginning with the complex political and social circumstances that led to World War II, this volume comprehensively discusses the decisions made, battles fought, lives affected, and subsequent results of the war that defined the twentieth century.
Includes a DVD featuring moving footage that supplements the material in the book.
A a story that takes the reader from the protagonist's (Danny McClain's) adolescence to his WWII flying experiences and unlikely romance with a Dutch resistance fighter to a happy ending.
During a routine search mission over the Pacific, Louis Zamperini’s plane crashed into the ocean, and what happened to him over the next three years of his life is a story that will keep you glued to the pages, eagerly awaiting the next turn in the story and fearing it at the same time.
This book grips you like a movie. The true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies: the American — 2nd Lt Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17 — and the German — 2nd Lt Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.
In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 downed airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of this unforgettable story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery is now being told for the first time.