The author, a German military officer working for the German resistance, recounts his role in the secret plot, code-named Valkyrie, focused on assassinating Adolph Hitler during World War II.
a true tale of mathematics, mysticism, and a quest to understand the universe
Aczel, Amir D
2005
Explores the mysterious work of seventeenth-century French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes, and examines his mathematical theories and his understanding of the order and mystery of the cosmos.
the graphic history of Richthofen's Flying Circus and the air war in WWI
Vansant, Wayne
2014
Told in graphic novel format, the story of Manfred von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron, from his beginnings as a cavalry member and a pilot-in-training to his death at the age of twenty-five and his enduring legacy.
A biography of the World War I ace known as the Red Baron who shot down 80 Allied planes before he himself was killed, a month before his twenty-sixth birthday.
A biography of the early nineteenth-century German chemist whose teaching and laboratory methods widely influenced the development of the science of chemistry.