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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In this captivating new young adult edition, the story of a man's breathtaking odyssey and the courage, cunning, and fortitude he found to endure and overcome. This gripping narrative will introduce a new generation to one of history's most thrilling survival epics.
4) Resolve: from the jungles of WWII Bataan, the epic story of a soldier, a flag, and a promise kept
Author
Publisher
Berkley Caliber
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The journal of an American soldier, killed during World War II, recounts his capture by the Japanese, his escape from the Bataan Death March, and his escape with a fellow soldier across enemy waters.
Author
Series
Great escapes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In spring 1942, Royal Air Force pilot Bill Ash's plane was shot down by Germans, who captured and eventually brought him to Stalag Luft III, a notorious camp for prisoners of war. The Germans boasted that the camp-which was isolated, heavily guarded, and surrounded by wire fences-was escape proof. But Ash was ready to prove them wrong. He, along with other POWs, would dig tunnels, hide in shower drains, or jump on trucks-all in the name of freedom....
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Beginning at her father’s deathbed, with all her questions still unspoken, and ending with their final conversation, Madison’s dual memoir offers a powerful, intimate perspective on the suppressed grief and thwarted love that forever alter a family when a wounded soldier brings his war home. --Amazon.com
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In his own words, Louis Zamperini reveals, with warmth and great charm, the essential values and lessons that sustained him throughout his remarkable journey. He was a youthful troublemaker from California who turned his life around to become a 1936 Olympian and a world-class miler at the University of Southern California. Putting aside his superstar track career, Louis Zamperini volunteered for the army before Pearl Harbor and was thrust into the...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This is the nonfiction love story of Elinor Powell, an African American army nurse, and Frederick Albert, a German prisoner of war. The two met when black army nurses were put in regular contact with German POWs who were detained in the United States during World War II, an unlikely and little-discussed circumstance during one of the most documented periods in history"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The epic true story of Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, an American hero who risked his life in the final days of World War II to save others--now in a thrilling young readers' edition. During the infamous World War II Battle of the Bulge, Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds was captured, along with his infantrymen. The Nazis took him and his men to Stalag IX A, a notorious prisoner of war camp in Germany, where he was the highest-ranking American soldier....
18) McCain
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
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
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile skies over occupied Europe. The final price was staggering. 4,300 B-17s and B-24s failed to return; nearly 21,000 men were taken prisoner or interned in a neutral country, and a further 17,650 made the ultimate sacrifice. Luck of the Draw is more than awar story. It's the incredible, inspiring story of Frank Murphy, one of the few survivors...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the indomitable American POWs who endured "Alcatraz," the Hanoi prison camp where North Vietnam locked its most dangerous and subversive prisoners, and the wives who fought to bring them home. During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners of war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of communist interrogators who ruthlessly plied them for military intelligence and propaganda. Determined to maintain...
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