... the book deserves a place alongside, I don't think it's extravagant to say, William Manchester's Goodbye, Darkness. ... Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors (Bantam 2004), winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature.
Twelve-year-old Tommy Gallagher, the bravest and toughest football player on the field, faces his biggest battle ever when his father, a Boston firefighter, is fatally injured while rescuing a child.
"First man in; last man out" had always been his dad's motto . . . yet he never said anything about leaving in an ambulance. Now Tommy's biggest battle has nothing to do with football.
On December 14, 1944, Japanese soldiers massacred 139 of 150 American POWs. This biography tells the story of Glenn ("Mac") McDole, one of eleven young men who escaped and the last man out of Palawan Prison Camp 10A.
A fierce competitor, Tommy's the toughest--and bravest--guy on the field. After all, he learned the game from his dad, a Boston firefighter who tackles each fire with a simple mantra: first man in, last man out.
" The story mixes the unimaginable brutality of the camps with the inspiring courage of the men, including a Dutch Colonial Army doctor whose skill and knowledge of the medicinal value of wild jungle herbs saved the lives of hundreds of his ...
... out everything else around us. Then. off in the distance. we heard other explosions and the ground shook. The Skyraidcrs' fire cut down whole trees. One wave of two planes was followed by another wave and another. General Del ... MAN OUT 185.
... 'd have to be left behind while the others searched for an exit. The whole crew of them needed to get the hell out of there before the gas overtook them. 8 "If There Are Boys Alive, They'll Be ExpectingUs" FRIDAY,. Last. Man. Out. •. 69.
... loud gurgling sound began emanating from the throat of Mine 39. It nearly drowned out the familiar roar of the Seymour's ... gurgles and growls had multiplied Bo's confusion into panic. Try as he might, he could not remember Seymour's ...