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Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The untold story of ex-Vietnam POW Colonel Carlyle "Smitty" Harris, who brought hope, strength, and the love of God to his fellow American POWs. Shot down over Vietnam on April 4, 1965, horrors awaited him in the infamous Hoa Lo prison-- the "Hanoi Hilton." There, hundreds of POWs suffered torture, solitary confinement, and abuse. Smitty remembered the Tap Code-- a World War II method of communication through tapping on a common water pipe. The code...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1861, too young and too small to enlist, Alman Beneway left home and followed Indiana infantry regiments for almost a year before he found a company that would enlist him as a drummer boy. This history, based on his memoirs and other primary sources, follows Al and his regiment through the south to Chickamauga, where he is captured while helping wounded soldiers, and his 14 months as a prisoner of war, until he rejoins his regiment in 1865.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
Una tarde de 1943, un bombardero de la Fuerza Aérea...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Through the Valley is the captivating memoir of the last U.S. Army soldier taken prisoner during the Vietnam War. A narrative of courage, hope, and survival, Through the Valley is more than just a war story. It also portrays the thrill and horror of combat, the fear and anxiety of captivity, and the stories of friendships forged and friends lost."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
En su niñez, Louis Zamperini fue un delincuente incorregible. Ya siendo adolescente, canalizó su rebeldía en las pruebas de pista y campo, y en este afán descubrió que poseía un talento prodigioso que los catapultó a los Juegos Olímpicos de Berlín. Pero cuando comenzó la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el atleta devino aviador y se embarcó en una empresa que lo condujo a un fatídico vuelo una tarde de mayo de 1943. Cuando su bombardero...
68) John McCain
Pub. Date
©2008, ©2003.
Language
English
Description
Follow the senator through his student days at the United States Naval Academy, his early political career in Arizona, and finally, through the 2008 presidential primaries. Includes 2008 update to 2003 film.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Joe Johnson Jr. ran away from home at the age of 12, hopping a freight train at the height of the Great Depression. Two years later, he managed to talk his way into the U.S. Army. Seeking freedom and adventure, he was sent to the Philippines. After a misstep with a teenage prostitute, he vowed to right the wrongs he'd done and help the girl have a better life. Yet when the Japanese attacked on December 7, 1941, his hopes of being with the girl had...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"From a World War II concentration camp to the Korean War to the White House, this is the incredible story of Tibor "Teddy" Rubin, the only Holocaust survivor ever to receive a Medal of Honor... In 1944, a thirteen-year-old Hungarian boy named Tibor Rubin was captured by the Nazis and sent to the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp. The teenager endured its horrors for more than a year. After surviving the Holocaust, he arrived penniless in America,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Valor is the magnificent story of a genuine American hero who survived the fall of the Philippines and brutal captivity under the Japanese, from New York Times bestselling author Dan Hampton. Lieutenant William Frederick "Bill" Harris was 25 years old when captured by Japanese forces during the Battle of Corregidor in May 1942. This son of a decorated Marine general escaped from hell on earth by swimming eight hours through a shark-infested bay;...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In 1944, hundreds of Allied soldiers were trapped in POW camps in occupied France. The odds of their survival were long. The odds of escaping, even longer. But one-man had the courage to fight the odds. An elite British S.A.S. operative on an assassination mission gone wrong. A Jewish New Yorker injured in a Nazi ambush. An eighteen-year-old Gary Cooper lookalike from Mobile, Alabama. These men and hundreds of other soldiers found themselves in the...
74) Three came home
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
During World War II, the Far East island of Borneo is captured by the Japanese. Based on true events this is the story of American author Agnes Newton Keith who along with her husband, a British administrator, is arrested. Their family is separated and placed into different prison camps. The camp commander takes an avid interest in the authoress, but does not intervene when she is subject to torture, starvation and humiliation at the hands of the...
76) Three came home
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
British and American families living in Borneo during World War II are packed into prison camps by the Japanese, where authoress Colbert catches the eye of the tough but cultured officer Hayakawa.
77) No surrender: a father, a son, and an extraordinary act of heroism that continues to live on today
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Part contemporary detective story, part World War II historical narrative, No Surrender is theinspiring truestory of Roddie Edmonds, a Knoxville-born enlistee who risked his life during the final days of World War II to save others from murderous Nazis, and the lasting effects his actions had on thousands of lives--then and now. Captured in the Battle of the Bulge, Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds was the highest-ranking American soldier at Stalag...
78) McCain
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sen John McCain's life is presented, including his complicated relationship with President Donald Trump, his experience as a POW in Vietnam, his run for the presidency in 2000 and 2008. and his decision to vote against the Republican health care bill that was to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Enduring the perils of World War II, Zamperini continued to find adventure at every turn |́| from crashing weddings to facing down Frank Sinatra in a fight to getting mixed up in a bank robbery. Until his death at 97 he remained undaunted, happy, sharp-minded, and healthy, and continued to engage life to its fullest.
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