Author: Joseph Lindley
Publisher: Booklocker.com
ISBN: 9781634901598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Forgotten Hero details the life of Silver Star recipient Calvin Heath - D Co., 3/187th Infantry, 101st Airborne. Heath was seriously wounded in 1968 during a vicious battle near the jungles of Phuoc Vinh, Vietnam. He returned home to a military system unprepared to care for its wounded warriors and a country with little tolerance for those who fought. It would take Heath more than 30 years to restore his stolen honor and his benefits.
Forgotten Hero
Author: Joseph Lindley
Publisher: Booklocker.com
ISBN: 9781634901598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Forgotten Hero details the life of Silver Star recipient Calvin Heath - D Co., 3/187th Infantry, 101st Airborne. Heath was seriously wounded in 1968 during a vicious battle near the jungles of Phuoc Vinh, Vietnam. He returned home to a military system unprepared to care for its wounded warriors and a country with little tolerance for those who fought. It would take Heath more than 30 years to restore his stolen honor and his benefits.
Publisher: Booklocker.com
ISBN: 9781634901598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Forgotten Hero details the life of Silver Star recipient Calvin Heath - D Co., 3/187th Infantry, 101st Airborne. Heath was seriously wounded in 1968 during a vicious battle near the jungles of Phuoc Vinh, Vietnam. He returned home to a military system unprepared to care for its wounded warriors and a country with little tolerance for those who fought. It would take Heath more than 30 years to restore his stolen honor and his benefits.
A Forgotten Hero
Author: Shelley Emling
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1773053086
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The true story of Folke Bernadotte’s heroic rescue of 30,000 prisoners during WWII In one of the most amazing rescues of WWII, the Swedish head of the Red Cross rescued more than 30,000 people from concentration camps in the last three months of the war. Folke Bernadotte did so by negotiating with the enemy — shaking hands with Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Gestapo. Time was of the essence, as Hitler had ordered the destruction of all camps and everyone in them. A Forgotten Hero chronicles Folke’s life and extraordinary journey, from his family history and early years to saving thousands of lives during WWII and his untimely assassination in 1948. A straightforward and compelling narrative, A Forgotten Hero sheds light on this important and heroic historical figure.
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1773053086
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The true story of Folke Bernadotte’s heroic rescue of 30,000 prisoners during WWII In one of the most amazing rescues of WWII, the Swedish head of the Red Cross rescued more than 30,000 people from concentration camps in the last three months of the war. Folke Bernadotte did so by negotiating with the enemy — shaking hands with Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Gestapo. Time was of the essence, as Hitler had ordered the destruction of all camps and everyone in them. A Forgotten Hero chronicles Folke’s life and extraordinary journey, from his family history and early years to saving thousands of lives during WWII and his untimely assassination in 1948. A straightforward and compelling narrative, A Forgotten Hero sheds light on this important and heroic historical figure.
TV's Forgotten Hero
Author: Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9781575050171
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
A biography of the persistent experimenter whose interest in electricity led him to develop an electronic television system in the 1920s.
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9781575050171
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
A biography of the persistent experimenter whose interest in electricity led him to develop an electronic television system in the 1920s.
Baseball's Forgotten Heroes
Author: Tony Salin
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN: 9780809226030
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Focusing on such athletes as Art Pennington, Bruno Haas, and Bill Lange, Salin presents the stories of more than a dozen former players, many in his own words. 15 photos.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN: 9780809226030
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Focusing on such athletes as Art Pennington, Bruno Haas, and Bill Lange, Salin presents the stories of more than a dozen former players, many in his own words. 15 photos.
Sergeant Sandlin
Author: James M. Gifford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938471674
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938471674
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Watergate's Forgotten Hero
Author: Adam Henig
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476684804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Nearly everyone who played a significant role in the Watergate saga has been scrutinized except one key participant: night watchman Frank Wills. On the morning of June 17, 1972, in Washington D.C, the twenty-four-year-old security guard was on duty at the Watergate Office Building when he detected a break-in. A high school dropout with only a few hours of formal guard training, Wills alerted the police who caught five burglars, ultimately igniting a national political scandal that ended with the resignation of President Richard Nixon. The only African American identified with the Watergate affair, Frank Wills enjoyed a brief moment in the limelight, but was unable to cope with his newfound fame, living the remainder of his life in obscurity and poverty. Through exhaustive research and numerous interviews, the story of America's most famous night watchman finally has been told.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476684804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Nearly everyone who played a significant role in the Watergate saga has been scrutinized except one key participant: night watchman Frank Wills. On the morning of June 17, 1972, in Washington D.C, the twenty-four-year-old security guard was on duty at the Watergate Office Building when he detected a break-in. A high school dropout with only a few hours of formal guard training, Wills alerted the police who caught five burglars, ultimately igniting a national political scandal that ended with the resignation of President Richard Nixon. The only African American identified with the Watergate affair, Frank Wills enjoyed a brief moment in the limelight, but was unable to cope with his newfound fame, living the remainder of his life in obscurity and poverty. Through exhaustive research and numerous interviews, the story of America's most famous night watchman finally has been told.
The Forgotten Hero of My Lai
Author: Trent Angers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780925417909
Category : Helicopter pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story of the U.S. Army helicopter pilot who risked his life to rescue South Vietnamese civilians and to put a stop to the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War in 1968. Revised Edition shows President Nixon and some of his political allies in the House of Representatives interfered in the judicial process to try to prevent any U.S. soldier from being convicted of war crimes.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780925417909
Category : Helicopter pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story of the U.S. Army helicopter pilot who risked his life to rescue South Vietnamese civilians and to put a stop to the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War in 1968. Revised Edition shows President Nixon and some of his political allies in the House of Representatives interfered in the judicial process to try to prevent any U.S. soldier from being convicted of war crimes.
Forgotten Heroes of World War II
Author: Thomas E. Simmons
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 158979964X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
World War II was the defining event of the twentieth century. For everyone it was a time of confusion, fear, destruction, and death on a scale never before seen. Much has been written of the generals, campaigns, and battles of the war, but it was young, ordinary American kids who held our freedom in their hands as they fought for liberty across the globe. Forgotten Heroes of World War II offers a personal understanding of what was demanded of these young heroes through the stories of rank-and-file individuals who served in the navy, marines, army, air corps, and merchant marine in all theaters of the war. Their tales are told without pretense or apology. At the time, each thought himself no different from those around him, for they were all young, scared, and miserable. They were the ordinary, the extraordinary—the forgotten.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 158979964X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
World War II was the defining event of the twentieth century. For everyone it was a time of confusion, fear, destruction, and death on a scale never before seen. Much has been written of the generals, campaigns, and battles of the war, but it was young, ordinary American kids who held our freedom in their hands as they fought for liberty across the globe. Forgotten Heroes of World War II offers a personal understanding of what was demanded of these young heroes through the stories of rank-and-file individuals who served in the navy, marines, army, air corps, and merchant marine in all theaters of the war. Their tales are told without pretense or apology. At the time, each thought himself no different from those around him, for they were all young, scared, and miserable. They were the ordinary, the extraordinary—the forgotten.
A Forgotten Hero
Author: Emily Sarah Holt
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A Forgotten Hero is a novella by Emily Sarah Holt. Holt was an English novelist known mainly for her historical novels for children. Excerpt: "The preparations for sleep were almost as primitive as those for meals. Exalted persons, such as the Earl and Countess, slept in handsome bedsteads, of the tent form, hung with silk curtains, and spread with coverlets of fur, silk, or tapestry. They washed in silver basins, with ewers of the same costly metal; and they sat, the highest rank in curule chairs, the lower upon velvet-cove red forms or stools. But ordinary people, of whom Clarice was one, were not provided for in this luxurious style. Bower-maidens slept in pallet-beds, which were made extremely low, so as to run easily under one of the larger bedsteads, and thus be put out of the way."
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A Forgotten Hero is a novella by Emily Sarah Holt. Holt was an English novelist known mainly for her historical novels for children. Excerpt: "The preparations for sleep were almost as primitive as those for meals. Exalted persons, such as the Earl and Countess, slept in handsome bedsteads, of the tent form, hung with silk curtains, and spread with coverlets of fur, silk, or tapestry. They washed in silver basins, with ewers of the same costly metal; and they sat, the highest rank in curule chairs, the lower upon velvet-cove red forms or stools. But ordinary people, of whom Clarice was one, were not provided for in this luxurious style. Bower-maidens slept in pallet-beds, which were made extremely low, so as to run easily under one of the larger bedsteads, and thus be put out of the way."
The Forgotten Heroes
Author: Clinton Cox
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780590451222
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The story of the Buffalo Soldiers, the African-American cavalry regiments used to fight Native Americans in the 1800s, recounts their heroic and ultimately tragic role in history and is accompanied by archival photographs. Reprint.
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780590451222
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The story of the Buffalo Soldiers, the African-American cavalry regiments used to fight Native Americans in the 1800s, recounts their heroic and ultimately tragic role in history and is accompanied by archival photographs. Reprint.