Whenever any of you couch-potato civilians get to feeling sorry for yourself and how bad your lot in life is, you need to sit down and read a book like "Hero Found" to be reminded what suffering and survival are really like, and how American servicemen and servicewomen put themselves in harm’s wa...
Naomi said softly.From Karen’s mother Machen heard about the young woman’s failed marriage to Steve Higgins. Karen had had an affair with a coworker of Steve’s the previous summer. Shortly after that ended, she had become pregnant, and against Steve’s wishes had an abortion. After several tries a...
The ice floe upon which they had been stranded began to drift, breaking up some of the ice that just hours earlier had kept them from reaching shore. Tyson decided to seize the opportunity. He knew how astonishingly quick young ice could form, and he had also seen how suddenly a gale could come u...
Three months after her launching that brisk autumn day in Bath, Maine, the new Fletcher-class destroyer was commissioned in January 1943.* A month-long West Indies shakedown cruise followed, with a complement of 350 officers and enlisted men, most of whom had never before been to sea and were “gr...
