Paul B Janeczko
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
This companion to The Dark Game: True Spy Stories introduces the military strategy of deception and examines how it has been used in war over the past 150 years.
From the story of the Trojan horse to today, deceptive techniques have always been used in war. In recent years the technology behind fooling the enemy has evolved dramatically. Janeczko focuses on the American Civil War, World Wars I and II, and the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In his third book about deception during war, Paul B. Janeczko focuses his lens on World War II and the operations carried out by the Twenty-Third Headquarters Special Troops, aka the Ghost Army. This remarkable unit included actors, camouflage experts, sound engineers, painters, and set designers who used their skills to secretly and systematically replace fighting units -- fooling the Nazi army into believing what their eyes and ears told them,...
10) Brickyard summer
Author
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
In a series of poems, the speaker and his best friend meander through the summer after eighth grade, encountering for the first time in the local people of their economically depressed neighborhood enormous courage and vitality.
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A collection of lively rhymes and tricky tongue twisters, poems for more than one voice, bilingual poems -- from classic Shakespeare and Lear to anonymous rhymes to contemporary riffs on everything under the sun. These poems just might inspire kids to memorize them!
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