Dowswell, Paul. creator text Children's nonfiction. enk London Usborne 1996 (2002 [printing]) 2002 monographic eng

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141 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. 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. 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. juvenile Paul Dowswell. Originally published as: Tales of real heroism, 1996. Heroes Juvenile literature Courage Juvenile literature CT217 D75 0746047746 9780746047743 020819 20241029124824.0 ocm47983684 eng