Non-Fiction Books
On December 7, 1941, Americans were stunned to learn that Japanese forces had launched an attack on Pearl Harbor. In this engrossing and extensively researched account, Theodore Taylor examines both sides of the battle, taking a close look at the events leading up to it and providing compelling insight into the motives and operations of the brave men and women swept up in the fight.
In 1942, America’s most crucial mission was to provide arms and supplies to our English and Russian allies. Theodore Taylor, who served in the merchant marines in World War II, tells the tragic tale of a convoy of 33 ships that sailed from Iceland to Russia in an effort to bring the Soviets needed tanks, trucks, airplanes, and ammunition. In vivid detail, Taylor follows one of the ships through the frigid waters of the Arctic as it battles Nazi bombers and submarinesand as its crew helplessly watches many of their companion ships perish in the mad dash to safe port.
Reminiscences of the author's youth as he assists his father, a Basque immigrant to California, with their sheep business.
An account of the June, 1942, air battle between American and Japanese forces which proved a decisive defeat for the Japanese and the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
Describes the events of the major sea battle in the English Channel in February 1942 when the British navy failed to capture several strategically important German battleships.
Reveals the covert operations at Rocket Island, Germany's missle research center in the Baltic, from its inception until the scientists were forced to flee just prior to Germany's defeat in World War II
The actress recounts the experiences that she and her husband encountered when they collected a cast of nearly one hundred lions--many raised by Miss Hedren herself--in order to make a film about African wildlife
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The author of the contemporary children's classic, The Cay, recounts the life of America's first black Naval aviator, from his impoverished youth in segregated Mississippi to his triumph over racism, in an illustrated biography.