Bruce Henderson: 12 books
Sons and Soldiers
The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller
"An irresistible history of the WWII Jewish refugees who returned to Europe to fight the Nazis.” —Newsday
They were young Jewish boys who escaped from Nazi-occupied Europe and resettled in America. After the United States entered the war, they returned to...
Hero Found
The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of And the Sea Will Tell comes Hero Found: the incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during the Vietnam War. This amazing story of triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds...
by Bruce Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
"Nail-biting true adventure."--Kirkus Reviews
In 1909, two men laid rival claims to this crown jewel of exploration. A century later, the battle rages still. This book is about one of the most enduring and vitriolic feuds in the history of exploration. "What a consummate cur...
Down to the Sea
An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
This epic story opens at the hour the Greatest Generation went to war on December 7, 1941, and follows four U.S. Navy ships and their crews in the Pacific until their day of reckoning three years later with a far different enemy: a deadly typhoon. In December 1944, while supporting General MacArthur's...
Leap of Faith
An Astronaut's Journey Into the Unknown
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
“An exciting insider’s look at Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo . . . NASA’s internal politics, disasters, glitches and close calls” by a pioneering astronaut (Publishers Weekly).
Gordon “Gordo” Cooper was one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, pilot for Apollo X, head...
Rescue at Los Banos
The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
From the bestselling author of Hero Found comes the incredible true story of one of the greatest military rescues of all time, the 1945 World War II prison camp raid at Los Baños in the Philippines—a tale of daring, courage, and heroism that joins the ranks of Ghost Soldiers, Unbroken, and The...
Time Traveler
A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
This is the dramatic and inspirational first-person story of theoretical physicist, Dr. Ronald Mallett, who recently discovered the basic equations for a working time machine that he believes can be used as a transport vehicle to the past. Combining elements of Rocket Boys and Elegant Universe, Time...
Spy Dust
Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations that Helped Win the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2003
From the author of the Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominated Argo, a true-life thriller set against the backdrop of the Cold War, which unveils the life of an American spy from the inside and dramatically reveals how the CIA reestablished the upper hand over the KGB in the intelligence war.
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by C.J. Henderson, Bruce Gehweiler
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
When Duke University receives a staggering grant that comes with one unusual condition, the pairing of parapsychologist Dr. William Boles and crypto-zoologist Dr. Hugh Blakley, the two are thrown together despite the career-long loathing they share for each other's disciplines. In only a matter of days,...
Tomorrow's Cthulhu
Stories at the Dawn of Posthumanity
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Super science. Madness. Transhumanism.
This is the dawn of posthumanity. Some things can’t be unlearned.
Gleaming labs whir with the hum of servers as scientists unravel the secrets of the universe. But as we peel away mysteries, the universe glances back at us. Even now, terrors rise...
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction
A Century of Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
The Doctoral StudentOs Advisor and Mentor
Sage Advice from the Experts
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
This book focuses on using faculty mentoring to empower doctoral students to successfully complete their doctoral studies. The book is a collection of mentoring chapters showcasing professors and dissertation advisors from the most prestigious universities in the United States. They provide an extraordinary...