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Author: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of more than 2,000 Polish Jewish refugees who fled across the Soviet Union to Japan, where they awaited entrance visas to the United States and elsewhere.
Author: Susan Elisabeth Subak
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2010-05-01
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0803230176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Susan Elisabeth Subak discovered that members of the Unitarian Church had helped her Jewish father immigrate to the United States, she was unaware of the impact the organization had made during World War II. After years of research, Subak uncovers the little-known story of the Unitarian Service Committee, which rescued European refugees during World War II, and the remarkable individuals who made it happen. The Unitarian Service Committee was among the few American organizations committed to helping refugees during World War II. The staff who ran the committee assisted those endangered by the Nazi regime, from famous writers and artists to the average citizen. Part of a larger network of American relief workers, the Unitarian Committee helped refugees negotiate the official and legal channels of escape and, when those methods failed, the more complex underground channels. From their offices in Portugal and southern France they created escape routes through Europe to the United States, South America, and England, and rescued thousands, often at great personal risk.
Author: Richard D. Stewart
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Published: 2012-03
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1616082275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe harrowing, true-life rescue of Nigerian burn victims and the race against time and...
Author: Emilio Corsetti
Publisher: Odyssey Publishing, LLC
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 0977897109
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Author: Capt. W.E. Johns
Publisher: Alien Ebooks
Published: 2023-10-31
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 1667629654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter Fortymore can’t believe his brother is dead so he conceives a desperate plan. He’ll run away from school, ‘borrow’ a plane and fly off to France to find him. In the chaos of the First World War, he and his friend manage to get away with it until they’re rumbled by their Flight Commander—Biggles.
Author: Cate Lineberry
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 031622023X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe compelling untold story of a group of stranded U.S. Army nurses and medics fighting to escape Nazi-occupied Europe. When 26 Army nurses and medics-part of the 807th Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron-boarded a cargo plane for transport in November 1943, they never anticipated the crash landing in Nazi-occupied Albania that would lead to their months-long struggle for survival. A drama that captured the attention of the American public, the group and its flight crew dodged bullets and battled blinding winter storms as they climbed mountains and fought to survive, aided by courageous villagers who risked death at Nazi hands to help them. A mesmerizing tale of the courage and heroism of ordinary people, The Secret Rescue tells not only a new story of struggle and endurance, but also one of the daring rescue attempts by clandestine American and British organizations amid the tumultuous landscape of the war.
Author: George Galdorisi
Publisher: Zenith Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780760323922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of a near-century of combat search and rescue, with an account of how the discipline was created and how it is administered—or neglected—today.
Author: Julie Orringer
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2019-05-07
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 0307959414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the bestselling, award-winning author of The Invisible Bridge comes a gripping tale of forbidden love, high-stakes adventure, and unimaginable courage filled with "suspense and tragedy, unexpected twists and deliverance” (The Seattle Times). • THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES TRANSATLANTIC MARSEILLE, 1940. Varian Fry, a Harvard-educated journalist and editor, arrives in France. Recognizing the darkness descending over Europe, he and a group of like-minded New Yorkers formed the Emergency Rescue Committee, helping artists and writers escape from the Nazis and immigrate to the United States. Amid the chaos of World War II, and in defiance of restrictive U.S. immigration policies, Fry must procure false passports, secure visas, seek out escape routes through the Pyrenees and by sea, and make impossible decisions about who should be saved, all while under profound pressure—and in a state of irrevocable personal change. In this dazzling work of historical fiction—one that illuminates previously unexplored elements of Fry’s story, and has, since its publication, brought us new insight into his life.
Author: Patrick Regan
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published: 2012-06-19
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1449407617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrue stories of dogs rescues by a national organization of volunteer pilots who fly pets to their new forever homes. Since 2008, an unlikely alliance of volunteer pilots and animal rescue enthusiasts has worked together to save thousands of death-row dogs by flying them to safe havens and better lives. Through two dozen accounts of real life animal rescues, Dog Is My Copilot tells the inspiring story of Pilots N Paws, America’s most unique and high-flying animal rescue organization. Founded “accidentally” when a private pilot offered to fly a mission of mercy to save an abused dog for a friend, Pilots N Paws has grown to include thousands of pilots who have transported tens of thousands of dogs slated for euthanasia (and a fair amount of cats and other animals), sometimes more than 1,000 miles away to new homes or no-kill shelters, where they have a much higher chance of adoption. These short, captivating stories are accompanied by more than 100 charming, poignant, color photos—most taken by the pilots themselves—of their canine passengers in flight. Unexpected things can happen when dogs reach cruising altitude, and the stories in Dog Is My Copilot run the emotional range from hilarious to heart rending—but the endings are always happy. These dogs are the lucky ones, and most of the pilots will tell you that when they get on the plane, they know it. After all, waiting for them on the ground hundreds of miles away is a second chance at a happy life with a loving forever family. Dog Is My Copilot—it's Chicken Soup for the Soul meets Marley and Me . . . with just a dash of The Right Stuff. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the Pilots N Paws organization.
Author: Mitchell Zuckoff
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2011-04-26
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0062087142
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A lost world, man-eating tribesmen, lush andimpenetrable jungles, stranded American fliers (one of them a dame withgreat gams, for heaven's sake), a startling rescue mission. . . . This is atrue story made in heaven for a writer as talented as Mitchell Zuckoff. Whew—what an utterly compelling and deeplysatisfying read!" —Simon Winchester, author of Atlantic Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoffunleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War IIrescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S.military personnel into a land that time forgot. Fans of Hampton Sides’ Ghost Soldiers, Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor, and David Grann’s The Lost Cityof Z will be captivated by Zuckoff’s masterfullyrecounted, all-true story of danger, daring, determination, and discovery injungle-clad New Guinea during the final days of WWII.
