Unlikely Warrior

Author : Georg Rauch
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780374301439

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Unlikely Warrior by Georg Rauch Pdf

As a young adult in wartime Vienna, Georg Rauch helped his mother hide dozens of Jews from the Gestapo behind false walls in their top-floor apartment and arrange for their safe transport out of the country. His family was among the few who worked underground to resist Nazi rule. Then came the day he was drafted into Hitler's army and shipped out to fight on the Eastern front as part of the German infantry—in spite of his having confessed his own Jewish ancestry. Thus begins the incredible journey of a nineteen year old thrust unwillingly into an unjust war, who must use his smarts, skills, and bare-knuckled determination to stay alive in the trenches, avoid starvation and exposure during the brutal Russian winter, survive more than one Soviet labor camp, and somehow find his way back home. Unlikely Warrior is Rauch's true account of this extraordinary adventure.

Author : Georg Rauch
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780374301422

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Unlikely Warrior by Georg Rauch Pdf

"A YA memoir of an 18-year old part-Jewish youth who, despite his heritage, is drafted into Hitler's army and sent to serve on the Russian front"--

Author : Lonnie M. Long Gary B. Blackburn
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781475990577

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Unlikely Warriors by Lonnie M. Long Gary B. Blackburn Pdf

Traces the activities of the Army Security Agency and its members during the Vietnam war.

Author : Lisa Michelle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952247845

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Unlikely Warrior by Lisa Michelle Pdf

Author : Angela Powers Flippen
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781490801155

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Diary of an Unlikely Warrior by Angela Powers Flippen Pdf

While praying and fasting for the local churches, God gave us the answers we had been seeking. It was not what we expected. Have you ever wondered why we do not see the works of the Holy Spirit in the Church? Have you ever wondered why Christians seemed to be so vexed and smitten? I know I have. Before we can see the good fruit Jesus told us to bear, we have to uproot the bad fruit. We have to seek him in Spirit and in truth. We have to die to self. I feel it is impossible for God to dump great authority and anointing in a people, when we have been unfaithful to him in the small matters. I believe he is looking for people like you and me, who will sacrifice and seek. When we seek, we must then obey. This book is an act of obedience to the Lord on my part, knowing full well there will be persecution and opposition. You can fill the sea with the things I do not know or understand, but one thing I do know is about deliverance and warfare. I pray this word is deposited into the right hearts and people and we will have a spiritual awakening. As my group was roused from a deep spiritual slumber, so I am praying that for you as well.

Author : Robert C. Lovell
Publisher : Two Harbors Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1936198207

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Unlikely Warrior by Robert C. Lovell Pdf

A tale of life, love, and growing up as part of The Greatest Generation, Unlikely Warrior is one memoir you'll never forget.

Author : Richard Baxell
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781781310823

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Unlikely Warriors by Richard Baxell Pdf

When a Nationalist military uprising was launched in Spain in July 1936, the Spanish Republic’s desperate pleas for assistance from the leaders of Britain and France fell on deaf ears. Appalled at the prospect of another European democracy succumbing to fascism, volunteers from across the Continent and beyond flocked to Spain’s aid, many to join the International Brigades. More than 2,500 of these men and women came from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth, and contrary to popular myth theirs was not an army of adventurers, poets and public school idealists. Overwhelmingly they hailed from modest working class backgrounds, leaving behind their livelihoods and their families to fight in a brutal civil war on foreign soil. Some 500 of them never returned home. In this inspiring and moving oral history, Richard Baxell weaves together a diverse array of testimony to tell the remarkable story of the Britons who took up arms against General Franco. Drawing on his own extensive interviews with survivors, research in archives across Britain, Spain and Russia, as well as first-hand accounts by writers both famous and unknown, Unlikely Warriors presents a startling new interpretation of the Spanish Civil War and follows a band of ordinary men and women who made an extraordinary choice.

Author : Sam Subity
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338636093

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The Last Shadow Warrior by Sam Subity Pdf

Percy Jackson meets Thor in a laugh-out-loud, action-packed adventure inspired by Norse mythology. Twelve-year-old Abby Beckett is proud to come from a long line of elite Viking warriors known as the Aesir. She's spent her entire life training to hunt the horrific creatures known as Grendels-the ancient foe of the Aesir-just like her mother did before she died. But there's just one, small problem: No one has seen a Grendel in centuries, and the Viking Council wants to disband the Aesir . . . forever. When her father is injured in an attack that leaves him in a coma, Abby is forced to take refuge at Vale Hall, a mysterious school in Minnesota where nothing is quite as it seems. She soon discovers the tables have turned and a Grendel is hunting her, but when she tries to alert the Viking Council, they accuse her of making up stories for attention . . . just like her mother did. Desperate to protect her father and clear her mother's name, Abby goes on a dangerous quest to discover the truth--a journey that brings her face-to-face with some unlikely foes, including a Ping-Pong-playing sea monster with a wicked backhand, and a dark Valkyrie with a fondness for bingo. Abby quickly realizes that someone at the school is trying to stop her progress and destroy the Aesir for good. And only she can unravel the sinister plot before it's too late.

Author : Colin Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1973570661

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Accidental Warrior by Colin Alexander Pdf

A college party lands freshman Hal Christianson in an America that could have been: no smartphones, no cars, no flush toilets. What he finds is a squabbling bunch of states, the consequence of the colonies having grown up on their own after European civilization collapsed from plague in the 1670s, and they are poised on the brink of war. There is no obvious way home and even asking is fraught with danger. People who appear like he did - as if from nowhere - are called Magicals, agents of Satan, to be killed out of hand. For a socially awkward young man, who takes refuge in online games, this is a bad situation. Swords and sorcery, though, had led Hal to study fencing, the one skill he has that may be useful in a world where the rifle is a new invention. Hal needs to grow up fast, just to survive. His path takes him from being a tavern boy to a mercenary for a merchant to the colonel of a vastly outnumbered regiment about to be attacked. Along the way, he discovers that love has less to do with beauty and more to do with who will save your life, even at the risk of her own. This is a coming of age in a different America.

Author : Mark Siegel,Alexis Siegel
Publisher : Random House Graphic
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101935866

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5 Worlds Book 1: The Sand Warrior by Mark Siegel,Alexis Siegel Pdf

R. J. Palacio, #1 New York Times bestselling author of WONDER, hails this adventure series as “Mind-blowingly beautiful. . . . A must-read.” Think Star Wars meets Avatar: The Last Airbender! The Five Worlds are on the brink of extinction unless five ancient and mysterious beacons are lit. When war erupts, three unlikely heroes will discover there’s more to themselves—and more to their worlds—than meets the eye. . . . • Oona Lee, the clumsiest student at the Sand Dancer Academy, is a fighter with a destiny bigger than she could ever imagine. • An Tzu, a boy from the poorest slums, has a surprising gift and a knack for getting out of sticky situations. • Jax Amboy is the star athlete who is beloved by an entire galaxy, but what good is that when he has no real friends? When these three kids are forced to team up on an epic quest, it will take not one, not two, but 5 WORLDS to contain all the magic and adventure! "A magical journey, as fun as it is beautiful!” —Kazu Kibuishi, #1 New York Times bestselling creator of AMULET "Bang-zoom . . . a series that promises to be epic."—The New York Times “This stellar team has created a gorgeous and entrancing world like no other!” —Noelle Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Nimona “Epic action, adventure, and mystery will draw you in, but the heartfelt characters and their seemingly impossible journey will keep you turning the pages.” —Lisa Yee, author of the DC Super Hero Girls™ series

Author : William Nicholson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152058664

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Seeker by William Nicholson Pdf

The first book in the Noble Warriors sequence, now in paperback, includes an exclusive interview with the author and a teaser chapter to "Jango," the next book in the sequence.

Author : Gary B. Blackburn,Lonnie M. Long
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781475990591

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Unlikely Warriors by Gary B. Blackburn,Lonnie M. Long Pdf

In early May 1961, a U.S. military aircraft taxied toward a well-guarded terminal building. The plane slowed to a halt; steps were maneuvered up to its side, and the door was pulled open. The tropical night air was heavy and dank, and the moon shone dimly through high thin clouds. On board the aircraft were ninety-two members of a specially selected team. The men were dressed in indistinguishable dark suits with white shirts and dark ties, and each man carried a new red U.S. diplomatic passport inside his breast pocket. The men held copies of their orders and records in identical brown Manila envelopes, and each mans medical records were stamped If injured or killed in combat, report as training accident in the Philippines. In such clandestine fashion, the first fully operational U.S. military unit arrived at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in South Vietnam. The unit was so highly classified even its name was top-secret. It was given a codename, a cover identity to hide the true nature of its mission. The units operation was housed in a heavily-guarded compound near Saigon, and within two days of its arrival, Phase I was implemented. Its operatives were intercepting Viet Cong manual Morse communications, analyzing it for the intelligence it contained and passing the information to the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group-Vietnam. The Army Security Agency was on duty.

Author : Lois Beardslee
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0816526729

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The Women's Warrior Society by Lois Beardslee Pdf

The WomenÕs Warrior Society is a remarkable gathering of characters and voices used to expose truths about Native American life. In tightly woven prose, Lois Beardslee tells stories about people from all over North America and from either side of the line between abused and abuser. Both individual and archetypal, Native and non-Native, male and female, her characters take up arms against widely accepted stereotypes about Native people. The women warriors in these tales have lived through a variety of mishaps, experiencing the consequences brought on by misinformation and the misguided efforts of institutions and individuals. Armed with this experience, they gather in unlikely ÒsweatlodgesÓÑfrom kitchen tables to public librariesÑtransforming into she-wolves who, lips curled, snarl at their own victimization and assert that hope for future generations is maintained through creativity, determination, and the preservation of traditional values. This is political writing at its most honest and creative. BeardsleeÕs style is poetic and lyrical, and her voice, shifting as it does, both grips us with terrible tone and comforts us with familiar assurance. A fierce call to action, this book reads like a song cycleÑboth singing to us and demanding that we sing in response. Beardslee creates new strategies and measures of success. Her warriors dance, bark, howl, and transform themselves in unexpected ways that invoke tears, laughter, even awe. They are, above all, driven, successful, and eternally hopeful.

Author : Greg Stier
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781496451576

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Unlikely Fighter by Greg Stier Pdf

Some memories are permanently seared into our childhood brains with a hot iron of adrenaline and fear. For five-year-old Greg, it was the memory of his ma walking back to the house after confronting his stepdad with a splintered, bloodied baseball bat in her hand. Greg Stier was raised in a family of bodybuilding, tobacco-chewing, fist-fighting thugs. He never knew his biological father because his mom had met his dad at a party; she got pregnant, and he left town. Though his mom almost aborted him, in a last-minute twist, Greg’s life was spared for so much more. Unlikely Fighter is the incredible story of how God showed up in Greg’s life—and how he can show up in yours as well. This is a memoir of violence and mayhem—and how God can transform everything.

Author : Maurice Shadbolt
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0879239158

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Monday's Warriors by Maurice Shadbolt Pdf

Based on fact, this tells of Kimball Bent, a Yankee who blundered into the British army in the mid-19th century, and was sent to fight in New Zealand. He deserted across battle lines to the Maori side in possibly the most ferocious colonial war ever fought.