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Amazing tales for making men out of boys

Oliver, Neil 1967- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780061766138
ISBN: 0061766135
Physical Description: print
xv, 364 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First US edition.
Publisher: New York : CollinsLiving, 2009.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Holding out for a hero -- The Penlee lifeboatmen -- A few good men -- John Paul Jones and the birth of the US Navy -- How curiously the course of one's life may be turned -- The demons of Camerone -- The trouble with the truth -- The battle of Isandlwana -- The heroic age -- D-day and the beach called Omaha -- When Britannia ruled the waves -- The Yangtze incident -- The loneliness of command -- Josiah Harlan, the man who would be king -- The luck of the Irish -- Sir Ernest Shackleton and the imperial trans-Antarctic expedition -- In search of a place in the world -- The flight of the Nez Perces -- First, women and children -- The Birkenhead drill -- For England's sake and duty -- The thin red line and the charge of the Light Brigade -- We're following the leader -- The Battle of Trafalgar -- A long way from home -- Moonwalkers and Apollo 13 -- Enemy at the gates -- Constantinople -- Old age and guile beat youth and enthusiasm -- Dien Bien Phu -- The field of human conflict -- The siege of the Alamo -- Their finest hour -- Thermopylae -- For the boy.