A Forgotten Hero
A Forgotten Hero

Author: Shelley Emling

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 2019-05-21

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1773053086

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The true story of Folke Bernadotte’s heroic rescue of 30,000 prisoners during WWII In one of the most amazing rescues of WWII, the Swedish head of the Red Cross rescued more than 30,000 people from concentration camps in the last three months of the war. Folke Bernadotte did so by negotiating with the enemy — shaking hands with Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Gestapo. Time was of the essence, as Hitler had ordered the destruction of all camps and everyone in them. A Forgotten Hero chronicles Folke’s life and extraordinary journey, from his family history and early years to saving thousands of lives during WWII and his untimely assassination in 1948. A straightforward and compelling narrative, A Forgotten Hero sheds light on this important and heroic historical figure.

Forgotten Hero
Forgotten Hero

Author: Joseph Lindley

Publisher: Booklocker.com

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9781634901598

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Forgotten Hero details the life of Silver Star recipient Calvin Heath - D Co., 3/187th Infantry, 101st Airborne. Heath was seriously wounded in 1968 during a vicious battle near the jungles of Phuoc Vinh, Vietnam. He returned home to a military system unprepared to care for its wounded warriors and a country with little tolerance for those who fought. It would take Heath more than 30 years to restore his stolen honor and his benefits.

Baseball's Forgotten Heroes
Baseball's Forgotten Heroes

Author: Tony Salin

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780809226030

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Focusing on such athletes as Art Pennington, Bruno Haas, and Bill Lange, Salin presents the stories of more than a dozen former players, many in his own words. 15 photos.

A Forgotten Hero
A Forgotten Hero

Author: Emily Sarah Holt

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-19

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13:

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A Forgotten Hero is a novella by Emily Sarah Holt. Holt was an English novelist known mainly for her historical novels for children. Excerpt: "The preparations for sleep were almost as primitive as those for meals. Exalted persons, such as the Earl and Countess, slept in handsome bedsteads, of the tent form, hung with silk curtains, and spread with coverlets of fur, silk, or tapestry. They washed in silver basins, with ewers of the same costly metal; and they sat, the highest rank in curule chairs, the lower upon velvet-cove red forms or stools. But ordinary people, of whom Clarice was one, were not provided for in this luxurious style. Bower-maidens slept in pallet-beds, which were made extremely low, so as to run easily under one of the larger bedsteads, and thus be put out of the way."

Watergate's Forgotten Hero
Watergate's Forgotten Hero

Author: Adam Henig

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2021-05-26

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1476684804

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Nearly everyone who played a significant role in the Watergate saga has been scrutinized except one key participant: night watchman Frank Wills. On the morning of June 17, 1972, in Washington D.C, the twenty-four-year-old security guard was on duty at the Watergate Office Building when he detected a break-in. A high school dropout with only a few hours of formal guard training, Wills alerted the police who caught five burglars, ultimately igniting a national political scandal that ended with the resignation of President Richard Nixon. The only African American identified with the Watergate affair, Frank Wills enjoyed a brief moment in the limelight, but was unable to cope with his newfound fame, living the remainder of his life in obscurity and poverty. Through exhaustive research and numerous interviews, the story of America's most famous night watchman finally has been told.

TV's Forgotten Hero
TV's Forgotten Hero

Author: Stephanie Sammartino McPherson

Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9781575050171

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A biography of the persistent experimenter whose interest in electricity led him to develop an electronic television system in the 1920s.

Forgotten Hero: A Memoir
Forgotten Hero: A Memoir

Author: Kathleen Cortese

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012-04-30

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1469190478

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This family saga takes place in New York City’s Greenwich Village. It begins in 1906 when nine-year-old Eddie is sent out by his mother to panhandle. Her husband is dying of tuberculosis and she is pregnant for the eleventh time. She can barely pay the rent, and her two youngest children have no shoes. There is no money for food and to keep the family warm over the winter she burns every stick of furniture in their one-bedroom basement apartment. As the Paul family’s story unfolds, it is at the same time told through the eyes of Eddie as he grows up on the tough streets of Greenwich Village.

Forgotten Heroes of World War II
Forgotten Heroes of World War II

Author: Thomas E. Simmons

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2014-11-06

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 158979964X

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World War II was the defining event of the twentieth century. For everyone it was a time of confusion, fear, destruction, and death on a scale never before seen. Much has been written of the generals, campaigns, and battles of the war, but it was young, ordinary American kids who held our freedom in their hands as they fought for liberty across the globe. Forgotten Heroes of World War II offers a personal understanding of what was demanded of these young heroes through the stories of rank-and-file individuals who served in the navy, marines, army, air corps, and merchant marine in all theaters of the war. Their tales are told without pretense or apology. At the time, each thought himself no different from those around him, for they were all young, scared, and miserable. They were the ordinary, the extraordinary—the forgotten.

The Forgotten Hero of My Lai
The Forgotten Hero of My Lai

Author: Trent Angers

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780925417909

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The story of the U.S. Army helicopter pilot who risked his life to rescue South Vietnamese civilians and to put a stop to the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War in 1968. Revised Edition shows President Nixon and some of his political allies in the House of Representatives interfered in the judicial process to try to prevent any U.S. soldier from being convicted of war crimes.