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Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (Oxford Oral History Series)

10 best books like Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (Oxford Oral History Series) (J. Todd Moye): The Red House Mystery, Nightbirds on Nantucket, The Good Soldiers, Dogmatics in Outline, Letters and Papers from Prison, Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I, The Stolen Lake, Dangerous Games, Girl Mary, Love Letters from Cell 92

The Red House Mystery
AuthorA.A. Milne
ISBN0486401294
The creator of such beloved storybook characters for children as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore, A. A. Milne was also the author of numerous dramas, essays, and novels for adults — among them, this droll and finely crafted whodunit.
In it, Milne takes readers to the Red House, a comfortable...
Nightbirds on Nantucket
AuthorJoan Aiken
ISBN0395971853
Having had enough of life on board the ship that saved her from a watery grave, Dido Twite wants nothing more than to sail home to England. Instead, Captain Casket's ship lands in Nantucket, where Dido and the captain's daughter, Dutiful Penitence, are left in the care of Dutiful's sinister Aunt Tribulation....
The Good Soldiers
AuthorDavid Finkel
ISBN0374165734
It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge. “Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences,” he told...
Dogmatics in Outline
AuthorKarl Barth
Barth stands before us as the greatest theologian of the twentieth century, yet the massive corpus of work which he left behind, the multi volume Church Dogmatics, can seem daunting and formidable to readers today. Fortunately his Dogmatics in Outline first published in English in 1949, contains...
Letters and Papers from Prison
AuthorDietrich Bonhoeffer
ISBN0684838273
One of the great classics of prison literature, Letters and Papers from Prison effectively serves as the last will and testament of the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a young German pastor who was executed by the Nazis in 1945 for his part in the “officers’...
Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I
AuthorThomas Malory
ISBN1401307809
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur"[1]) is a reworking of existing tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory interprets existing French and English...
The Stolen Lake
AuthorJoan Aiken
ISBN0099477394
Dido Twite, heroine of Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket, is on her wildest adventure yet. On her way back to London aboard the Thrush, Dido and crew are summoned to the aid of the tyrannical queen of New Cumbria. Her island is an infernal place where birds carry off men and fish eat human...
Dangerous Games
AuthorJoan Aiken
ISBN0440415934
This eagerly awaited addition to Joan Aiken's award-winning Wolves series takes us on Dido's most imaginative adventure yet!

Dido Twite has been sailing the high seas, chasing after Lord Herodsfoot, who is scouring the globe for new and interesting games. Now he's needed back in London,...
Girl Mary
AuthorPetru Popescu
ISBN1416532633
A hauntingly beautiful novel, bringing to life one of history’s most mysterious characters, Mary of Nazareth, as a beautiful, complicated, utterly believable girl in love.

• In a bestselling tradition: Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent, Francois Mauriac’s...
Love Letters from Cell 92
AuthorDietrich Bonhoeffer
ISBN0687010985
A brilliant theologian hanged by the Nazis in 1945 for taking part in a plot to kill Hitler, Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived out his Christian commitment to the very end of his life. This collection of correspondence between Bonhoeffer and von Wedemeyer--long anticipated but never before published--offers...
Memoirs of Napoleon - Complete
AuthorLouis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
One cannot escape Bourrienne.

Any solid study of Napoleon requires attention be paid to the man he strapped like a fifth appendage to his torso and carried forth to glory. We may wish to skirt his account, filled as it is with envy and pretention. He was an egotistical aristocrat with the gall...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
AuthorEberhard Bethge
ISBN0800628446
Just finished this; it's a beast but was surprised at how readable it was. The fact that the author, Eberhard Bethge, was Bonhoeffer's student at the underground seminary, a close friend and co-conspirator of Bonhoeffer makes the book come alive. Particularly striking is the story of Bonhoeffer's...
Our Separate Days
AuthorSharyn McCrumb
ISBN0926487019
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    Sharyn McCrumb, an award-winning Southern writer, is best known for her Appalachian “Ballad” novels, including the New York Times best sellers The Ballad of Tom Dooley, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, and The Songcatcher. Ghost Riders, which won the Wilma Dykeman Award for...
A Presumption of Death
AuthorJill Paton Walsh
While Lord Peter is abroad on a secret mission, Harriet Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, takes their children to safety in the country. But there's no escape from war: rumors of spies abound, glamorous RAF pilots and flirtatious land-girls scandalize the villagers, and the blackout makes rural lanes as...
The Attenbury Emeralds
AuthorJill Paton Walsh
ISBN0312674546
In 1936, Dorothy L. Sayers abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. Sixty years later, a brown paper parcel containing a copy of the manuscript was discovered in her agent’s safe in London, and award-winning novelist Jill Paton Walsh was commissioned to complete it. The result of the...
The Late Scholar
AuthorJill Paton Walsh
ISBN1250032792
A new murder mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey - now a Duke - and his wife Harriet Vane, set in an Oxford college in the 1950s.

Peter Wimsey is pleased to discover that along with a Dukedom he has inherited the duties of 'visitor' at an Oxford college.When the fellows appeal to him to resolve a...
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
AuthorWendy Pearlman
ISBN0062654454
LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL

Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.

Against...
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