Author: South Kensington Museum. Forster Collection
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Code Name Verity
Author: Elizabeth Wein
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1423153251
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Don’t miss Elizabeth Wein’s stunning new novel, Stateless The beloved #1 New York Times bestseller, a "fiendishly plotted" (New York Times) "heart-in-your mouth adventure" (Washington Post) that "will take wing and soar into your heart" (Laurie Halse Anderson) October 11th, 1943—A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution. As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy? A universally acclaimed Michael L. Printz Award Honor book, Code Name Verity is a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1423153251
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Don’t miss Elizabeth Wein’s stunning new novel, Stateless The beloved #1 New York Times bestseller, a "fiendishly plotted" (New York Times) "heart-in-your mouth adventure" (Washington Post) that "will take wing and soar into your heart" (Laurie Halse Anderson) October 11th, 1943—A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution. As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy? A universally acclaimed Michael L. Printz Award Honor book, Code Name Verity is a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other.
Forster Collection
Author: South Kensington Museum. Forster Collection
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk Buckingham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
A Spy in the Sky
Author: Kenneth B. Johnson
Publisher: Air World
ISBN: 9781526761569
Category : Aerial reconnaissance, British
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Many stories abound of the daring exploits of the RAF's young fighter pilots defying the might of Hitler's Luftwaffe, and of the dogged courage of the men of Bomber Command flying night after night over Germany in the face of flak and Focke-Wulfs, yet little has been written about the pilots who provided the key evidence that guided the RAF planners - the aerial photographers. Ken Johnson joined No.1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit as an eighteen-year-old and soon found himself at the controls of a Spitfire high above enemy territory. The PRU aircraft were stripped of all nonessential equipment to increase their performance, because speed and height was their only protection as the aircraft's guns were among those items that were removed. In this lighthearted reminiscence, Ken Johnson relives his training and transfer to an operational unit, but not the one he had expected. He had asked if he could fly Spitfires. He was granted that request, only to find himself joining a rare band of flyers who took to the skies alone, and who flew in broad daylight to photograph enemy installations with no radios and no armament. Unlike the fighter pilots who sought out enemy aircraft, the pilots of the PRU endeavored to avoid all contact; returning safely with their vital photographs was their sole objective. As well as flying in northern Europe, Ken Johnson was sent to North Africa, where his squadron became part of the United States Army Air Force North West African Photographic Wing (NAPRW). In this role, he flew across southern Europe, photographing targets in France and Italy. The Spy in the Sky fills a much-needed gap in the history of the RAF and, uniquely, the USAAF during the latter stages of the Second World War.
Publisher: Air World
ISBN: 9781526761569
Category : Aerial reconnaissance, British
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Many stories abound of the daring exploits of the RAF's young fighter pilots defying the might of Hitler's Luftwaffe, and of the dogged courage of the men of Bomber Command flying night after night over Germany in the face of flak and Focke-Wulfs, yet little has been written about the pilots who provided the key evidence that guided the RAF planners - the aerial photographers. Ken Johnson joined No.1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit as an eighteen-year-old and soon found himself at the controls of a Spitfire high above enemy territory. The PRU aircraft were stripped of all nonessential equipment to increase their performance, because speed and height was their only protection as the aircraft's guns were among those items that were removed. In this lighthearted reminiscence, Ken Johnson relives his training and transfer to an operational unit, but not the one he had expected. He had asked if he could fly Spitfires. He was granted that request, only to find himself joining a rare band of flyers who took to the skies alone, and who flew in broad daylight to photograph enemy installations with no radios and no armament. Unlike the fighter pilots who sought out enemy aircraft, the pilots of the PRU endeavored to avoid all contact; returning safely with their vital photographs was their sole objective. As well as flying in northern Europe, Ken Johnson was sent to North Africa, where his squadron became part of the United States Army Air Force North West African Photographic Wing (NAPRW). In this role, he flew across southern Europe, photographing targets in France and Italy. The Spy in the Sky fills a much-needed gap in the history of the RAF and, uniquely, the USAAF during the latter stages of the Second World War.
Catalogue of the American Books in the Library of the British Museum at Christmas MDCCCLVI.
Author: Henry Stevens
Publisher: London : C. Whittingham
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Publisher: London : C. Whittingham
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Catalogue of the American books in the library of the British museum at Christmas mdccclvi. [With] Catalogue of the Canadian and other British North American books in the library of the British museum at Christmas mdccclvi [and] Catalogue of the Mexican and other Spanish American & West Indian books in the library of the British museum at Christmas 1856 [and] Catalogue of the American maps in the library of the British museum at Christmas 1856
Author: Henry Stevens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description