110 results for "World War II Adventure" between $5.00 and $75.00

I loved these kinds of choose-your-own-adventure books when I was a kid and incorporating historical events and facts into the stories makes them even more entertaining. Each book focuses on a different event in history, but it’s up to the reader to choose the point of view to take. The story will progress for a few pages and then the reader must make a decision about what course they want to take. Then, the reader turns to the page directed in the book and sees what happens based on the choice...

Description Table of Contents Author Bios This collection of popular naval stories covers the entire span of World War II, beginning when Britain's Royal Navy faced fascist forces on its own until the final Allied victory over the Japanese in 1945. It offers a rich mixture of stories about such large and well-known battles and operations as the Battle of the River Plate, Pearl Harbor, and the Battle of the Coral Sea, and such lesser-known actions as the submarine attack on Corfu harbor, the loss...

Describes the 1945 odyssey of three plane crash survivors in New Guinea who endured a harrowing journey through the jungle to seek help, their encounter with a primitive tribe who had never seen white people, and their eventual rescue by a band of paratroopers. (PNG29, $15.99)

Drawn from interviews, declassified U.S. Army documents, personal photos and mementos, a survivor’s diary, a rescuer’s journal, and original film footage, Lost in Shangri-La recounts this incredible true-life adventure for the first time. Mitchell Zuckoff reveals how the determined trio—dehydrated, sick, and in pain—traversed the dense jungle to find help; how a brave band of paratroopers risked their own lives to save the survivors; and how a cowboy colonel attempted a previously untested rescue...

Shadow Divers The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II

Twenty-two U-boat veterans tell their stories in this collection of their experiences, recorded by the author during several years of travel throughout Germany. While many books have been written about the U-boat war, this is one of the few that focuses on the lives of the submariners, and rarer still is its concentration on the crewmen rather than the officers. Melanie Wiggins interviewed seventeen men of the enlisted ranks, along with five commanders, to take readers into the terrifying world of...

Pages: 400, Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, Random House

Genre: Military & War. Category War Adventure, War Drama, Ensemble Film, Combat Films, War Epic. Theme: Daring Rescues, Military Life, Great Battles, Behind Enemy Lines, Heroic Mission. Studio: Warner Home Video. Run Time: 12 hr 35 min. Language: Japanese, English, French. Subtitle Language: French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese. Picture Format: letterbox. Release Date: May 3, 2005.

First time in English Action-adventure narrative about elite German airborne troops Covers recruitment, organization, training, and combat on all fronts As a crucial part of the blitzkrieg that swept across Western Europe in the spring of 1940, German paratroopers made combat drops in Denmark and Norway and then won a brilliant victory in their assault on the Belgian fortress of Eben-Emael. Their most famous airborne operation came in Crete in 1941 when they captured the island but with such high...

The activities in this book show children how it felt to live through this monumental period in history. Kids can: Play a rationing game or try the butter extender recipe to understand the everyday sacrifices of rationing goods. Try their hand at military strategy in coastal defense, break a military code, and play the latitude-longitude tracking game. Grow a victory garden and stage an adventure radio program to appreciate the hardships and joys experienced on the home front. Interview a veteran...

[Jackson] re-creates the spirit of adventure and volunteerism, and the feelings of pride and patriotism of these military nurses through their own reminiscences. Journal of Military History. A poignant collection of personal anecdotes from World War II nurses, They Called Them Angels offers accurate, firsthand narratives of what the nursing field entailed. Contrary to the oft-seen movie depiction of the boy-crazy, highly primped, and ridiculously mannered wartime nurses (all of whom were...