Shot Down

  • Shot Down
    By Jonathan Mary-Todd

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  • Shot Down
    By Jonathan Mary-Todd

    I spat out more river water and lowered my mouth down onto his damp orange beard. Two breaths into his mouth—nothing. It wasn't 'til I started pumping his chest again that the Captain opened his eyes. He coughed up water, bubbling like ...

  • Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth
    By Steve Snyder

    World War II fades in importance as each year goes by. Shot Down moves history out of the footnotes into reality, keeping the stories of real people alive as they experience being shot down.

  • Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth
    By Steve Snyder

    Winner of 20 national book awards, SHOT DOWN is set within the framework of WW II and recounts the dramatic experiences of each member of a B-17 bomber crew after their plane, piloted by the author's father, was knocked out of the sky by ...

  • Shot Down: The Secret Diary of One POW's Long March to Freedom
    By Alex Kerr

    Like Alex Kerr, my father was also shot down as a very young man, incarcerated for the remainder of his war in Stalag Luft III and at the very end of the war marched across Northern Europe in bitter winter conditions, emerging from the ...

  • Shot Down: The powerful story of what happened to MH17 over Ukraine and the lives of those who were on...
    By Marianne van Velzen

    This is the story of some of the people who boarded that fatal flight and the conflict below them that was doomed to destroy their lives and the happiness of the people they left behind.

  • Shot Down
    By Glenn Cheney

    One minute the plane is flying high. The next a bullet or missile hits it, and it begins to fall from the sky. Sometimes all is lost. Sometimes the crew can eject.

  • Shot Down: A Secret Diary of One POWs Long March to Freedom
    By Alex Kerr

    Alex escaped the march witha mate, passing through the front lines betweenthe British and German forces to commandeer aGerman mayor's car and drive back to Brussels totake the next aircraft to freedom.Alex's charm and optimistic outlook ...

  • Shot Down
    By Glenn Cheney

    This series of nonfiction readers will grab a student's interest from the very first page! Designed with struggling readers in mind, these riveting books offer short chapters on high-interest headlines.