01978cam a2200373 a 4500 ocm47983684 OCoLC 20241029124824.0 020819r20021996enka j 000 0 eng GBA1V5567 bnb 0746047746 (paperback) 9780746047743 (paperback) AU@ 000024000184 AU@ 000040414865 NZ1 6498538 (OCoLC)47983684 eng GAFCSC LIBRARY CT217 D75 Dowswell, Paul. Tales of real heroism True stories of heroes / Paul Dowswell. London : Usborne, 1996 (2002 [printing]) 141 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. text txt rdacontent Usborne true stories Originally published as: Tales of real heroism, 1996. Include: -- Catastrophe at Chernobyl -- 12 seconds from death -- Ronnie O' Brien -- Odette's ordeal -- Odette Sansom ordeal with the Gestapo -- Helicopter heroes -- Punching a hole in the sky -- Chuck Yeager -- Animal heroes -- Stauffenberg's secret Germany -- Claus von Stauffengerg and Nazi Germany -- Alexie Stakhanov -- Soviet superstar -- Blackbeard meets his match -- Lieutenant Maynard -- Owens 4, master race 0 -- Jesse Owens ridicules Hitler -- Rubble and strife in battlefield Beirut -- Surgeon Pauline Cutting -- Cosmonaut number one -- Yuri Gagarin -- Death or glory for the last gladiator- Evel Knieval. Profiles a variety of men and women who have shown some form of heroism, from the man who captured Blackbeard the pirate and members of the resistance against Hitler to cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and a surgeon in war-torn Beirut. Heroes Juvenile literature. Courage Juvenile literature. Children's nonfiction. NZ-WeK lcc BK CT217 D75 0 NO HOLDINGS IN GHUCC - 52 OTHER HOLDINGS 1528 1528 0 0 lcc 0 0 REF GAFC GAFC GEN 2024-10-29 0 CT217 D75 2024-2412 2024-10-29 12:49:17 c.1 2024-10-29 BK