captivity

Impressions of Africa

by Polizzotti, Mark, Roussel, Raymond

fromFrench literature series (Normal, Ill.)

0 Type: Book

While shipwrecked in a mythical African land, passengers stage a gala and entertain the chieftain Talou, their captor, with bizarre performances, including a zither-playing worm, a marksman who can peel an egg at fifty yards, and others.

Impressions of Africa

by Polizzotti, Mark, Roussel, Raymond

fromFrench literature series (Normal, Ill.)

0 Type: Book

While shipwrecked in a mythical African land, passengers stage a gala and entertain the chieftain Talou, their captor, with bizarre performances, including a zither-playing worm, a marksman who can peel an egg at fifty yards, and others.

Impressions of Africa

by Polizzotti, Mark, Roussel, Raymond

fromFrench literature series (Normal, Ill.)

0 Type: Book

While shipwrecked in a mythical African land, passengers stage a gala and entertain the chieftain Talou, their captor, with bizarre performances, including a zither-playing worm, a marksman who can peel an egg at fifty yards, and others.

Recounts the author's harrowing experiences as a victim of kidnapping at the hands of the Taliban, recounting how he and his friends were abducted, the days he spent in captivity, and how he was rescued in a deadly SEAL Team Six operation.

Kidnapped by the Taliban: a story of terror, hope, and rescue by Seal Team …

by Joseph, Dilip, Lund, James L

0 Type: Book

Recounts the author's harrowing experiences as a victim of kidnapping at the hands of the Taliban, recounting how he and his friends were abducted, the days he spent in captivity, and how he was rescued in a deadly SEAL Team Six operation.

Under an Afghan sky: a memoir of captivity

by Fung, Mellissa

0 Type: Book

"In October 2008, Mellissa Fung, a reporter for CBC's The National, was leaving a refugee camp outside of Kabul when she was kidnapped by armed men. She was forced to hike for several hours through the mountains until they reached a village; there, the kidnappers pushed her towa…

Bloody times: the funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt fo…

by Swanson, James L.

0 Type: Book

On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time--the Yankees are coming, it warned. That night Davis fled Richmond, setting off an intense manhunt for the Confederate president. Two weeks later, President Lin…

Bloody times: the funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt fo…

by Swanson, James L.

0 Type: Book

On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. "There is no more time -- the Yankees are coming," it warned. That night Davis fled Richmond, setting off an intense manhunt for the Confederate presid…

Bloody times: the funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt fo…

by Swanson, James L.

0 Type: Book

New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt James L. Swanson creates an adaptation for young people of his adult book Bloody Crimes, a suspense-filled thriller that sheds light on two fallen leaders of the North and South. One man, President Lincoln, assassinated, on his way to…

Bloody times: the funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt fo…

by Swanson, James L.

0 Type: Book

On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time--the Yankees are coming, it warned. That night Davis fled Richmond, setting off an intense manhunt for the Confederate president. Two weeks later, President Lin…

The last battle: when U.S. and German soldiers joined forces in th…

by Harding, Stephen

0 Type: Book

Documents the 1945 efforts of U.S. and German soldiers to rescue fourteen prominent French prisoners from an SS-guarded castle in the Austrian Alps, sharing insights into the motives behind the unlikely alliance.

The last battle: when U.S. and German soldiers joined forces in th…

by Harding, Stephen

0 Type: Book

The true story of US & German soldiers fighting side by side in the final days of WW II.

The last battle: when U.S. and German soldiers joined forces in th…

by Harding, Stephen

0 Type: Book

"May 1945. Hitler is dead, and the Third Reich little more than smoking rubble. No GI wants to be the last man killed in action against the Nazis. But for cigar-chewing, rough-talking, hard-drinking, hard-charging Captain Jack Lee and his men, there is one more mission: rescue f…