Amazing tales for making men out of boys
By: Neil Oliver.
Edition: 1st US ed.
Publisher: CollinsLiving
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780061766138
Subjects: Masculinity; Men; Courage; Male friendship
Table of contents: title: Holding out for a hero; title: The Penlee lifeboatmen; title: A few good men; title: John Paul Jones and the birth of the US Navy; title: How curiously the course of one's life may be turned; title: The demons of Camerone; title: The trouble with the truth; title: The battle of Isandlwana; title: The heroic age; title: D-day and the beach called Omaha; title: When Britannia ruled the waves; title: The Yangtze incident; title: The loneliness of command; title: Josiah Harlan, the man who would be king; title: The luck of the Irish; title: Sir Ernest Shackleton and the imperial trans-Antarctic expedition; title: In search of a place in the world; title: The flight of the Nez Perces; title: First, women and children; title: The Birkenhead drill; title: For England's sake and duty; title: The thin red line and the charge of the Light Brigade; title: We're following the leader; title: The battle of Trafalgar; title: A long way from home; title: Moonwalkers and Apollo 13; title: Enemy at the gates; title: Constantinople; title: Old age and guile beat youth and enthusiasm; title: Dien Bien Phu; title: The field of human conflict; title: The siege of the Alamo; title: Their finest hour; title: Thermopylae; title: For the boy.