The Tortoise And The Soldier
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Author | : Michael Foreman |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 2015-11-24 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1627791744 |
As a boy, Henry Friston dreamed of traveling the world. He thought he was signing up for a lifetime of adventure when he joined the Royal Navy. But when World War I begins, it launches the world, and Henry, into turmoil. While facing enemy fire at Gallipoli, Henry discovers the strength he needs to survive in an unexpected source: a tortoise. And so begins the friendship of a lifetime. Based on true events, and with charming illustrations, this story of war, courage, and friendship will win the hearts of readers.
Author | : Jennifer Beck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2017-03 |
Genre | : Picture books for children |
ISBN | : 9781775433651 |
Meet Torty! Shes one tough little tortoise with a beat-up shell and some missing toes. Torty survived a great war that raged in Europe 100 years ago. Torty was rescued back then by a young Kiwi soldier. She is a World War One survivor.
Author | : Shona Riddell |
Publisher | : Exisle Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-07-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780473318949 |
Based on the true story of one of the longest-living and quietest World War I survivors, The Tale of the Anzac Tortoise is an epic tale of soldiers, nurses, sacrifice and kindness, when siblings Matthew and Marama find themselves transported back in time to the shores of Gallipoli through an encounter with a tortoise. The original tortoise who inspired the story was plucked by a wounded soldier from the battlefield and then gifted to a nurse, who brought him home to New Zealand. That nurse was the great-great-aunt of author Shona Riddell, and the tortoise remained in their family for the next 80 years!
Author | : Jennifer Beck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Anzac Day |
ISBN | : 9781775432074 |
It is wartime in Europe. A young soldier from 'a country on the other side of the world' rescues and brings back to health a little bantam, and in the midst of the fighting and devastation an unusual friendship is formed. Every morning the bantam lays an egg for the soldier and his friends and becomes the center of their affection and hopes for the end of the war.
Author | : Sasa Stanisic |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2009-05-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1555848796 |
“A brilliant debut novel” about a young Bosnian War refugee who finds the secret to survival in language and stories (Los Angeles Times). For Aleksandar Krsmanović, Grandpa Slavko’s stories endow life in Višegrad with a kaleidoscopic brilliance. Neighbors, friends, and family past and present take on a mythic quality; the River Drina courses through town like the pulse of life itself. So when his grandfather dies suddenly, Aleksandar promises to carry on the tradition. But then soldiers invade Višegrad—a town previously unconscious of racial and religious divides—and it’s no longer important that Aleksandar is the best magician in the nonaligned states; suddenly it is important to have the right last name and to convince the soldiers that Asija, the Muslim girl who turns up in his apartment building, is his sister. Alive with the magic of childhood, the surreality of war and exile, and the power of language, every page of this glittering novel thrums with the joy of storytelling. “Wildly inventive.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Poignant and hauntingly beautiful.” —The Village Voice “A funny, heartbreaking, beautifully written novel.” —The Seattle Times
Author | : Michael Foreman |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2018-10-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1787611396 |
Stubby was a brave soldier, a loyal friend... and a dog. From an army training camp to the trenches in France, this is the incredible true story of Sergeant Stubby, the dog who served bravely in the First World War, sniffing out gas attacks, catching spies and winning the hearts of his fellow soldiers.
Author | : Michael Foreman |
Publisher | : Templar |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781800785304 |
Author | : George A. Forsyth |
Publisher | : New York : D. Appleton |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : R.G. Grant |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2007-09-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0756644038 |
Focusing on the front-line soldiers who fought for their tribes, their cities, their overlords and their countries-from the Ancient Greeks who repelled the invading Persians in the 5th century to the US Marines in action in Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, this visual history paints a compelling portrait of the front-line soldier through 2,500 years of history. The third in a series of illustrated military history books, following the highly successful Battle and Weapon, Warrior features vivid accounts of daily life, training, and tactics of the ordinary fighting man. There are also features on the kit they carried and the weapons they used, as well as the part they played in significant battles. In addition to celebrated soldiers of Europe and North America there are sections on equally formidable warriors from other parts of the world, such as the Mongol horsemen of the 13th century, the Aztecs, the Samurai of 17th-century Japan, New Zealand's Maori and the Zulus of South Africa. Warrior is organized into six sections, covering six distinct periods in the history of warfare: Phalanxes and Legions deals with the warfare of Ancient Greece and Rome; Conquest and Chivalry explores the age of warriors who fought for either honor or plunder; Pikemen and Musketeers charts the advent of gunpowder in the 16th century; Empires and Frontiers deals with expansion of empires and the clashes of colonization; Trenches and Dogfights looks at the mechanized warfare of World War I and II, when the development of tanks, aeroplanes and submarines as weapons of war marks the beginning of a completely new era; and Guerillas and Commandos shows that despite the proliferation of death-dealing machines the ordinary soldier still retains a role, sometimes highly specialized, such as helicopter-borne infantry, or guerrilla forces like the Vietcong, who managed to resist the most powerful army on earth.
Author | : George Alexander Forsyth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : |