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Author : Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner
Publisher : Between the Lines
ISBN 13 : 1771132302
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Flight and Freedom written by Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2015 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kristen Fulton
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452170584
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)
Download or read book Flight for Freedom written by Kristen Fulton and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Inspiring True Story about One Family's Escape from Behind the Berlin Wall! Peter was born on the east side of Germany, the side that wasn't free. He watches news programs rather than cartoons, and wears scratchy uniforms instead of blue jeans. His family endures long lines and early curfews. But Peter knows it won't always be this way. Peter and his family have a secret. Late at night in their attic, they are piecing together a hot air balloon—and a plan. Can Peter and his family fly their way to freedom? This is the true story of a boy and his family who risk their lives for the hope of freedom in a daring escape from East Germany via a handmade hot air balloon in 1979. • A perfect picture book for educators teaching about the Cold War, the Iron Curtain, and East Germany • Flight for Freedom is a showcase for lessons of bravery, heroism, family, and perseverance, as well as stunning history • Includes detailed maps of the Wetzel family's escape route and diagrams of their hot air balloon For fans of historical nonfiction picture books like Let the Children March, The Wall, Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, and Armstrong: The Adventurous Journey of a Mouse to the Moon. • True life escape stories • For readers age 5–9 • For teachers, librarians, and historians Kristen Fulton is a children's book author. She can always be found with a notebook in hand as she ventures through historical sites and museums. Most of the time she lives in Florida—but she can also be found traveling the country by RV. Torben Kuhlmann is an award-winning children's book author and illustrator. Starting in kindergarten he became known as "the draftsman." Flying machines and rich historical detail often adorn his work. He lives in Hamburg, Germany.
Author : Ana Veciana-Suarez
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780439381994
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Flight to Freedom written by Ana Veciana-Suarez and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Person Fiction is dedicated to the immigrant experience in modern America. "Flight to Freedom" is closely based on Suarez's own story of leaving Cuba during the Freedom Flights of the 1960s. Yara Garcia and her family live a middle-class life in Havana, Cuba. But in 1967, as Communist ruler Fidel Castro tightens his hold on Cuba, the Garcias, who do not share the political beliefs of the Communist Party, are forced to flee to Miami, Florida. There, Yara encounters a strange land with foreign customs. She knows very little English, and she finds that the other students in her new school have much more freedom than she and her sisters. Tension develops between her parents, as Mami grows more independent and Papi joins a militant anti-Castro organization.
Author : Dr. Algirdas V. Kanauka
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1543430899
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Raven’S Flight to Freedom written by Dr. Algirdas V. Kanauka and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of my survival, adventures, experiences, and insights about geopolitics and changing worldviews from before World War II Lithuania to Soviet occupation and my escape and evasion through wartime Germany till the end of WWII. It also talks about my life as a refugee in displaced-persons camp for four years and my immigration to the United States of America in 1949. Five years later, having graduated from the Citadel Military College, I was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the US Air Force and participated in the Cold War as a combat crew member of Strategic Air Commands Bombers B-52 and B-58. Then I had a stint with research and development of F-111 weapons systems at Wright Air Development Center and about a year in Southeast Asian war (Vietnam) with an F-111 fighter-bomber detachment. Then I went back to Europe on an US AF project. Finally, after twenty-two years, I retired from the Air Force to Southern California and worked in the aerospace industry and had new experiences and insights about mens venture into the cosmos. However, after the dissolution of Soviet Union, the old country of Lithuania became free, and I went there to help rebuild the country and pay my debt to it by consulting the general staff and teaching at the military academy there. There are more insights and adventures. Finally, I retire to cool my heels in the warm waters of the Pacific Rim in Southern Californias Rancho Palos Verdes as a freelance writer.
Author : Alvin O. Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Flight to Freedom written by Alvin O. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the struggles of enslaved Africans in the Americas who achieved freedom through flight and the establishment of Maroon communities in the face of overwhelming military odds on the part of the slaveholders.
Author : Mercedes Lackey
Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 1625795289
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (257 download)
Download or read book Freedom Flight written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralgha nar Hhallas, captain of a war cruiser, noble lord of the Kilrathi Empire—and a rebel. Captain K’Kai of Firekka, first of her winged species to leave her planet for the stars. Captain Ian St. John, call sign “Hunter,” hotshot human pilot—he thinks he’s just in it for the thrill of the chase. Rikik, K’Kai’s niece, hereditary leader of her clan—all she wants to do is follow in her notorious relative’s footsteps and fly the stars. They were as disreputable a gang of misfits as ever flew between the stars. But together they would free a world! Set in the world of the Wing Commander computer game universe. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Author : Ondřej Kundra
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
ISBN 13 : 8024646536
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Vendulka written by Ondřej Kundra and published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famed Czech Avant-garde photographer Jan Lukas snapped an offhand portrait of twelve-year-old Vendulka Vogl in March 1943. A friend of the Vogls, Lukas was saying goodbye to the family, who were soon to leave Prague for a concentration camp. The photograph almost didn’t see the light of day—Lukas knew that if the Nazis found it on him, he could wind up in the camps as well—but the image was eventually developed and came to symbolize the Holocaust and humanize its victims. Seventy years after this famous picture was taken, investigative journalist Ondřej Kundra discovered that, despite all odds, Vendulka Vogl had survived the camps of Terezín, Auschwitz, and Christianstadt, and was in fact still alive and living in the United States. Kundra persuaded her to tell the remarkable story surrounding the photograph: her survival, her later decision to flee the Communist regime for America, and how she later reconnected with Jan Lukas, maintaining a lifelong friendship. Vogl’s thrillingly moving story, Kundra’s sharp and engaging writing, and Lukas’s striking photography all combine to make Vendulka an inspiring investigation into the horrors of totalitarianism and the redemptive beauty of friendship.
Author : Daniel Snell
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004494057
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Flight and Freedom in the Ancient Near East written by Daniel Snell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom as a value is older than Greece, as evidence from the Ancient Near East shows us through this book. Snell first looks at words for freedom in the Ancient Near East. Then he examines archival texts to see how runaways expressed their interest in freedom in Mesopotamian history. He next examines what elites said about flight and freedom in edicts, legal collections, and treaties. He devotes a chapter to flight in literature and story. He studies freedom in Israel by looking at Biblical terminology and then practice in narratives and legal collections. In a final chapter Snell traces the descent of ideas about freedom among Jews, Greeks and Christians, and Muslims, concluding that the devotion to freedom may be nearly a human universal.
Author : Alan Honeyborne
Publisher : Struik Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781770072695
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (726 download)
Download or read book Freedom Flight written by Alan Honeyborne and published by Struik Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Freedom Flight' chronicles the round-the-world microlight expedition that killed two pilots. The story was sensational and hit the news with mishaps and 'tragedies', but the record-breaking flight was an incredible way to travel the world.
Author : Henrietta Buckmaster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Flight to Freedom written by Henrietta Buckmaster and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of the Underground Railroad told through the lives of courageous men and women who took part in the movement.
Author : Alan Van Ormer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781952661082
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Freedom Flight written by Alan Van Ormer and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil Roberts
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022620104X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Freedom as Marronage written by Neil Roberts and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Freedom as Marronage" deepens our understanding of political freedom not only by situating slavery as freedom s opposite condition, but also by investigating the experiential significance of the equally important liminal and transitional social space "between" slavery and freedom. Roberts examines a specific form of flight from slavery"marronage"that was fundamental to the experience of Haitian slavery, but is integral to understanding the Haitian Revolution and has widespread application to European, New World, and black Diasporic societies. He pays close attention to the experience of the process by which people emerge "from "slavery "to "freedom, contending that freedom as marronage presents a useful conceptual device for those interested in understanding both normative ideals of political freedom and the origin of those ideals. Roberts investigates the dual anti-colonial and anti-slavery Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) and especially the ideas of German-Jewish thinker Hannah Arendt, Irish political theorist Philip Pettit, American fugitive-turned ex-slave Frederick Douglass, and the Martinican philosopher Edouard Glissant in developing a theory of freedom that offers a compelling interpretive lens to understand the quandaries of slavery, freedom, and political language that still confront us today."
Author : Jaycee Dugard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501147633
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Freedom written by Jaycee Dugard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the follow-up to ... A Stolen Life, [kidnapping survivor] Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Judith Bloom Fradin
Publisher : National Geographic Kids
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book 5000 Miles to Freedom written by Judith Bloom Fradin and published by National Geographic Kids. This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen and William Craft were two of the few slaves to ever escape from the Deep South. Their first escape took them to Philadelphia, then on to Boston pursued by slave hunters, and finally 5000 miles across the ocean to England, where they were able to settle peacefully.
Author : Nelson Mandela
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759521042
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)
Download or read book Long Walk to Freedom written by Nelson Mandela and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history – and then go out and change it." –President Barack Obama Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. After his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela was at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is still revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. Long Walk to Freedom is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela told the extraordinary story of his life -- an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph. The book that inspired the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
Author : Miguel Vargas-Caba
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780595681679
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Bear written by Miguel Vargas-Caba and published by . This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1976, Viktor Belenko defected to Japan in his MiG-25 Foxbat jet fighter, one of the most well-known defections from the Soviet block. But in that same year, there was another defection so embarrassing to the Soviets that its particulars remained a secret for more than twenty-five years. All media accounts of Soviet TU-95 flights participating in the Okean 76 naval maneuvers mention only two planes. Whenever they were confronted in private, however, the Soviets acknowledged that in reality, "three" planes took off from Russia, with the third aircraft crashing at sea, killing everyone aboard. Since it sank in deep waters, no one attempted to salvage the wreck. But what the Soviet authorities never acknowledged publicly or privately was that the third TU-95 made a bold and risky flight from the USSR to Canada. Because its crew defected, the Soviets never admitted that such an event happened. "Bear: Flight to Liberty" tells the third crew s thrilling story. "BEAR" is the product of Vargas-Caba s meticulous research into the Soviet Armed Forces and provides an authenticity few books on the subject can match. His careful marshalling of real-world facts to develop his work of fiction makes "BEAR" an exciting read for anyone who wants to remember how much was at stake during the Cold War. Nate Braden, co-author of "The Last Sentry" After years of distinguished service for the country s air force Mikhail is court-martialed, demoted and sent to finish his career in the backwaters of the mother country. Deemed politically unreliable, Mikhail forever a Russian but never a Communist Party member bridles under Soviet rule and eventually plans a daring airborne escape. To do so, he must convince his crew to leave with him, develop a viable flight plan and avoid the potentially fatal attention of innumerable Soviet military officers and KGB stooges. The author tells Mikhail s tale with meticulous care; his account is thoroughly detailed and filled with the depth of research that turns rough histories into credible recreations. Kirkus Discoveries"
Author : Olga Tokarczuk
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525534210
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Flights written by Olga Tokarczuk and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx) "A magnificent writer." — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time "A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." — Washington Post From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.
