The dangerous book of heroes
By: Conn Iggulden and David Iggulden.
Contributors: Iggulden, David, 1949-
Edition: 1st US ed.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780061928246
Subjects: Heroes -- Biography; Courage -- Case studies; Self-confidence -- Case studies; Perseverance (Ethics) -- Case studies
Genres: Biography; Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: George Washington; title: Sir Ranulph Fiennes; title: Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton; title: Daniel Boone; title: The few; title: The Magna Carta barons; title: Oliver Cromwell; title: Helen Keller; title: James Cook; title: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay; title: The abolition of slavery; title: Tata'ka Iyo'take : Sitting Bull; title: Edith Cavell; title: Thomas Paine and the rights of man; title: The women of SOE : setting Europe ablaze; title: Siege of the Alamo; title: Sir Henry Morgan, buccaneer; title: Lawrence of Arabia; title: Florence Nightingale; title: Flight 93; title: Winston Churchill; title: The Gurkhas; title: Horatio Nelson : the immortal memory; title: The Marines at Iwo Jima; title: Billy Bishop : the courage of the early morning; title: Bletchley Park and the first computers; title: William Bligh's boat boyage; title: Apollo 11 : landing on the Moon; title: Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington; title: Alcock and Brown : transatlantic non-stop; title: Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake; title: Harry Houdini : escapologist; title: Scott of the Antarctic; title: The men of Colditz; title: The unknown warrior; title: Martin Luther King, Jr.