Too Young To Be A Hero

Author : Rick Holz
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 : 9780732268169
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Too Young to Be a Hero written by Rick Holz and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of a Young Soldier in Hitler's Wehrmacht'. 'My story is not about the rise and fall of the Third Reich. My story is about me. I am neither famous nor infamous, neither a dazzling success nor a dismal failure. I am a plain and ordinary human being who was too young to be a hero.' Ollie Weiss, the author's name for himself, was born in 1924 in a small town in Germany. When his father dies on the first day of school, Ollie feels deserted in an unfair, harsh world. He joins the Hitler Youth at ten and begins to greet his mother with 'Heil Hitler' instead of 'Good morning'.When Ollie signs up for the infantry he is willing to die for his beloved Fuhrer, the saviour of his Fatherland. But his years of brainwashing quickly wear off as he reaches the brink of insanity defending a corridor west of Stalingrad. Ollie's god has betrayed him and his world is turned upside down. Too Young to be a Hero is an extraordinary true story of survival, moral conflict and of heartache.

Author : George Lince
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786476079
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Too Young the Heroes written by George Lince and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Right after Pearl Harbor, the author joined the Marines at 17. After boot camp, he went to the First Marine Division, taking part in some of the bloodiest fighting in the Pacific, including the landing on Okinawa where he was wounded. Fighting under terrible conditions, he and his fellow Marines persevered. This is the author's story of combat and of growing up.

Author : Nikki Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780648723233
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hero Like You written by Nikki Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-10 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hero Like You looks at everyday heroes and highlights qualities such as loyalty, compassion, resourcefulness, justice, and courage. The lyrical rhyme and relatable illustrations remind us that we all have the opportunity to be a hero by helping others, doing right and making the world a better place. "What the world needs is a hero like you!"

Author : Ellis Paul
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN 13 : 080753241X
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hero In You written by Ellis Paul and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed songwriter Ellis Paul brings the inspirational words from his songs to the pages of a new picture book! Based on his award-winning family album of the same name, The Hero in You introduces kids to thirteen real-life American heroes. From Chief Joseph to Rosa Parks, their remarkable, heroic lives motivate and encourage us to aim high and try our best. Also included is a special edition CD of The Hero in You with 14 songs and exclusive introductory tracks from Ellis Paul. Readers can listen along to the lyrical book text, then read additional facts about the heroes on each spread.

Author : Rick Holz
Publisher : Fourth Estate
ISBN 13 : 9780732264291
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Too Young to be a Hero written by Rick Holz and published by Fourth Estate. This book was released on 2000 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gordon R. McLean
Publisher : Focus on the Family Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781561796298
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Too Young to Die written by Gordon R. McLean and published by Focus on the Family Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the stories of several former Chicago gang members, this book shows how teens can be won to Christ and transformed into productive members of society.

Author : Xin SuiMengHan
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1649353898
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures of Young Hero written by Xin SuiMengHan and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a martial arts world that had heroes, money, beauties, power, and plots! Let's see how a young man from another world would act amidst so many beauties, powers, and schemes! Our goal: to get the prettiest girl; to wear the best clothes; to practice the best martial arts. All of this was contained in "Confusion of the Heroic Assassins"!

Author : Phillip Hoose
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374382522
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Were There, Too! written by Phillip Hoose and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-08-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE PLAYED IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

Author : Marcia Lynn McClure
Publisher : Distractions Ink
ISBN 13 : 0982192118
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weathered Too Young written by Marcia Lynn McClure and published by Distractions Ink. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lark Lawrence was alone. In all the world there was no one who cared for her. Still, there were worse things than independence-and Lark had grown quite capable of providing for herself. Nevertheless, as winter loomed, she suddenly found herself with no means by which to afford food and shelter-destitute. Yet, Tom Evans was a kind and compassionate man. When Lark Lawrence appeared on his porch, without pause he hired her to keep house and cook for himself and his cantankerous elder brother, Slater. And although Tom had befriend Lark first, it would be Slater Evans-handsome, brooding and twelve years Lark's senior-who would unknowingly abduct her heart. Still, Lark's true age (which she concealed at first meeting the Evans brothers) was not the only truth she had kept from Slater and Tom Evans. Darker secrets lay imprisoned deep within her heart-and her past. However, it is that secrets are made to be found out-and Lark's secrets revealed would soon couple with the arrival of a woman from Slater's past to forever shatter her dreams of winning his love-or so it seemed. Would truth and passion mingle to capture Lark the love she'd never dared to hope for?

Author : Penny Eley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843842742
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Partonopeus de Blois written by Penny Eley and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First book-length treatment of a fascinating medieval French romance, underlining its influence in the genre. Partonopeus de Blois is one of the most important works of twelfth-century French fiction; it shaped the development of romance as a genre, gave rise to adaptations in several other medieval languages and even an opera (Massanet's Esclarmonde). However, partly because of its complicated transmission history, and partly due to the fact that it has been overshadowed by the works of Chrétien de Troyes, it has been unjustly neglected. This firstfull-length study of the romance brings together literary, historical and manuscript studies to explore its making as it evolved through seven medieval "editions", the earliest of which probably predated most of Chrétien's romances. The book's thematic analyses show how the Partonopeus poet applied established techniques of rewriting to a wide range of classical, vernacular and Celtic sources, combining this literary fusion with political subtexts to create a new and influential model of romance composition. Detailed studies of the Continuation reveal more ambitious experimentation by the original author, as well as the activities of a series of "editors" who continued to modify the text for over a century. A final discussion of patronage proposes a new reading of the poem's distinct narratorial interventions on women and love, and suggests a link between Partonopeus and a disturbing episode in the history of Blois. Penny Eley is Professor of Medieval French at the University of Sheffield.