Tim Brady
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it's entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls: Hannie Schaft, and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad. Smart, fiercely political, devoted solely to the cause, and "with nothing to lose but their own lives," Hannie,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
he astonishing true story of three fearless female resisters during WWII whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. It also made them the underground's most invaluable commodity. Recruited as teenagers, Hannie Schaft, and Dutch sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen fulfilled their harrowing missions as spies, saboteurs, and Nazi assassins with remarkable courage, but their stories have remained largely...
5) Gopher gold: legendary figures, brilliant blunders, and amazing feats at the University of Minnesota
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An account of the heroic but tragic campaign of Captain Henry Waskow's 36th Division documents their successful mission to drive away German forces from the mountain region infamously dubbed "Purple Heart Valley" at the cost of Waskow and 80 percent of his company.