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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
viii, 207 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a collaboration between Private First Class Jessica Lynch and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, the young soldier tells of her life in Palestine, West Virginia and recounts the details of her capture, imprisonment, and dramatic rescue during the Iraq War.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
307 pages : illustrations ; cm
Language
English
Description
A young adult edition of the bestseller documents the story of how Louis Zamperini, a juvenile delinquent-turned-Olympic athlete and World War II pilot, crashed into the ocean and survived for weeks on a life raft only to become a prisoner of war.
Author
Publisher
Caliber
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts the heroic story of eleven American prisoners of war who escaped certain death after years of slave labor, starvation, and torture, celebrating their endurance, determination, and courage.
9) Unbroken
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1943, while World War II raged on in the Pacific Theater, Lieutenant Louis Zamperini was the only survivor of a deadly plane crash in the middle of the ocean. Zamperini had a troubled youth, yet honed his athletic skills and made it all the way to the 1934 Olympics in Berlin. However, what lay before him was a physical gauntlet unlike anything he had encountered before: thousands of miles of open ocean, a small raft, and no food or water.
10) No surrender: a father, a son, and an extraordinary act of heroism that continues to live on today
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Part contemporary detective story, part World War II historical narrative, No Surrender is the inspiring true story of Roddie Edmonds, a Knoxville-born enlistee who risked his life during the treacherous final days of World War II to save others from murderous Nazis, and the lasting effects his actions had on thousands of lives--then and now"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington—and Hanoi—to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam.
On February 12, 1973, one hundred and fifteen men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried off a huge military transport plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These American servicemen had endured years of brutal torture, kept shackled...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
775 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The epic true story of an American hero who flew during WWII, soon to be featured in the upcoming Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks TV Series, Masters of the Air. Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile skies over occupied Europe. The final price was staggering. 4,300 B-17s and B-24s failed to return; nearly 21,000 men were taken prisoner or interned in a neutral country, and...