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Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what side you’re on and what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to survival or to death. In the You Choose Books set, only YOU can CHOOSE which path you take through history. What will it be? Get ready for an adventure…

I made this selection because it was recommended for those who enjoyed "Unbroken", and it was an excellent recommendation. The stories are similar in time period and setting (Pacific theater, WWII) and both deal with a tragic air crash with survivors in need of rescue. But this is not a copy of the earlier story and is compelling in its own way. The narrative follows the events up to and subsequent to the crash, but but also puts into context the backgrounds of the players, allowing us to know...

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...

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In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery–and make history themselves. For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating through wreckage as perilous as a minefield, they pushed themselves...

When Aline Griffith was born in Pearl River, New York, in 1923, one might have guessed from her exceptional beauty that a career as an actress or a model would be in her future. Few would have imagined that twenty-one years later, she would find herself in Spain as a deep-cover OSS agent, infiltrating the highest levels of Spanish society; or that five years later still, she would marry a Spanish grandee and become one of the most watched, most admired, most fascinating women of international society...

Pages: 432, Paperback, Usborne Books

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.

Pages: 210, Edition: Revised, Paperback, West Indies Trading Co

This is a collection of 21 accounts of people and events that illuminate the strange adventures, mysterious circumstances, extreme behaviors and forgotten tragedies of World War II. Ranging from a look at Adolf Hitler’s "children factory," to the smuggling of gold bullion from the besieged island of Corregidor, to those who flew with the Chinese Air Force against Japan years before the more famous Flying Tigers, these accounts provide insight into the larger scope of the war.

“PT-109 ” John F. Kennedy in World War II . By Robert J. Donovan. The World War II adventure that made a President. In the early morning of August 2, 1943, PT-109 was patrolling in Blackett Straight in the Solomon Islands. Skippered by Lieutenant John F. Kennedy, the PT boat was suddenly rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagirl , slicing the wooden PT in half. Ten of the PT crew, including Kennedy survived the terrifying ordeal and spent 30 hours in the water before swimming to a nearby...

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...