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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The bestselling author of "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" transports readers back to one of the most shocking events in American history. Swanson deploys his signature "you are there" style to tell the story of the JFK assassination as it has never been told before. Photos.
84) The tunnels: escapes under the Berlin Wall and the historic films the JFK White House tried to kill
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling Cold War narrative exploring two harrowing attempts to rescue East Germans by tunneling beneath the Berlin Wall, the U.S. television networks who financed and filmed them, and the Kennedy administration's unprecedented attempt to suppress both films. In the summer of 1962, one year after East German Communists built the Berlin Wall, a group of daring young West Germans came up with a plan. They would risk prison, Stasi torture, even death...
85) PT 109
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Retelling of John F. Kennedy's wartime exploits as skipper of a battle-scarred PT boat. The assignment: harass the enemy and buy time for a U.S. Navy still on the drawing boards. In August 1943, PT 109 was sliced in half by a Japanese destroyer. Kennedy led his surviving crew through a sea aflame from gasoline, towing one badly burned sailor miles to the nearest island.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"A riveting new history that explores the complicated, poignant, and consequential transition of power from Dwight D. Eisenhower to John F. Kennedy. The exchange of leadership between the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth presidents of the United States marked more than a succession of leaders. It symbolized--and triggered--a generational shift in American politics, policy, and culture. During this dramatic ten-week transition, Eisenhower reluctantly...
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