Bøker av Neal Bascomb

For fans of The Boys in the BoatandIn the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph by an improbable team of upstarts over Hitler's fearsome Silver Arrows during the golden age of auto racing

"Author Neal Bascomb chronicles Gandhi's arguably most famous, and effective, campaign in his fight for India's independence: the Salt March. This campaign would kickstart the first and biggest nonviolent protest movement the world had ever seen, making history"--

"There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits of human foot speed. In 1952, after suffering defeat at the Helsinki Olympics, three world-class runners each set out to break this barrier: Roger Bannister was a young English medical student who epitomized the ideal of the amateur; John Landy the privileged son of a genteel Australian family; and Wes Santee the swaggering American, a Kansas farm boy and natural athlete. Spanning three continents and defying the odds, these athletes' collective quest captivated the world. Neal Bascomb's bestselling adult account adapted for young readers delivers a breathtaking story of unlikely heroes and leaves us with a lasting portrait of the twilight years of the golden age of sport."--

Neal Bascomb, New York Times best-selling author, delivers the spellbinding story of the downed Allied airmen who masterminded the remarkably courageousand ingeniousbreakout from Germany's most devilish POW camp

The tale of the three daredevil World War I pilots held in Germany's most infamous POW prison, their organisation of the greatest mass prison escape of the conflict, and their extraordinary flight to freedom.

The thrilling story of how SOE-trained commandos destroyed the Nazis' nuclear-weapons programme in one of the most daring - and successful - raids of World War II.

The thrilling story of the most dramatic and significant of all Nazi man-hunts.