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11) The aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the epic age of flight
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores "the saga of three extraordinary aviators--Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle--and how they redefine heroism through their genius, daring, and uncommon courage"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi. 13 HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to repel the attackers and protect the Americans stationed...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
xvi, 278 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Reexamines the lives of bona-fide American heroes such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, and reevaluates the legacies of religious figures such as Anne Hutchinson, whose trial for heresy and banishment riveted the colonies in 1637, and unknown martyrs such as Mary Easty and Giles Cory, executed for practicing witchcraft.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles girls and women who participated in the American Revolution by refusing to buy British merchandise, collecting money, and even going to war as wives, nurses, spies, or soldiers.
Author
Publisher
White Mane Kids
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
viii, 142 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the lives and times of outstanding African Americans who were born as slaves and went on to accomplish great things: Josiah Henson, Frederick Douglass, William and Ellen Craft, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Henry Bibb, Booker T. Washington, Susie King Taylor, Nat Love, Robert Smalls, and Sojourner Truth.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amid ferocious fighting that many times nearly took his life, Sergeant Dillard 'C.J.' Johnson is recognized by the Pentagon to have accounted for more than two thousand enemy killed in action while battling inside and out of the 'Carnivore, ' the Bradley Fighting Vehicle he commanded during Operation Iraqi Freedom"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher
Hachette Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
250 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"New York Times journalist and bestselling author Joe Drape takes us inside the modern-day process of the making of a saint -- part biography of a wartime adventurer Father Emil Kapaun, part detective story, and part journey of faith"--
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