Describes the two great lives of Lord Baden-Powell--his exciting thirty-year military career and his later life as the founder of the Boy Scouts, a world-wide institution that he created almost singlehandedly.
How did the United States, caught up in 1950s Cold War politics, become increasingly enmeshed in a conflict over 8,000 miles away? And why was exiting the war so difficult?.
Provides a portrait of Angel Island, which processed more than half a million immigrants between 1910 and 1940. Details the hardships many immigrants endured as they waited to be processed and includes black-and-white photographs.
the White Rose student resistance movement that defied Adolf Hitler
Freedman, Russell
2016
"The true story of the White Rose, a group of students in Nazi Germany who were active undercover agents of the resistance movement against Hitler and his regime"--Provided by publisher.
