Books with author WALTER LORD

[Read by Jeff Cummings] On May 24, 1940, Hitler's armies were on the brink of a shattering military victory. Only ten miles away, 400,000 Allied troops were pinned against the coast of Dunkirk. But just eleven days later, 338,000 men had been successfully evacuated to England. How did it happen? Walter Lord's remarkable account of how ''the miracle of Dunkirk'' came about is based on hundreds of interviews with survivors of all nations who fought among the sand dunes of northern France.

In this first Breakthrough Book Walter Lord tells the heroic story of Robert E. Peary and his conquest of the North Pole after six attempts and 22 years of desire and effort. This true story of adventure and discovery describes the dangers of traveling by dog sledge over shifting sea ice and the challenge of 50 degrees below zero cold, when faces are blackened by frostbite and even alcohol freezes solid. The final dash to the top of the world sees sledges smashed by rough sea ice, men and dogs falling through the ice into the Arctic Ocean, and the ultimate achievement of the Pole itself--one of man's most hard-south goals. The drama is not over even after Peary reaches the Pole and returns to civilization, for he then has to undergo a bitter controversy with Dr. Frederick A. Cook, who claimed he reached the Pole a year ahead of Peary. Young readers will delight in the pace and excitement of this book and in the sharp detail that highlights the story

Walter Lord―author of such best-sellers as A Night to Remember and A Day of Infamy―brings to life the remarkable events of what we now call The War of 1812―including the burning of Washington and the attack on Baltimore's Fort McHenry that inspired the Francis Scott Key to write what would become our national anthem. Lord gives readers a dramatic account of how a new sense of national identity emerged from the smoky haze of what Francis Scott Key so lyrically called "the dawn's early light."

She was the world's biggest-ever ship. A luxurious miracle of twentieth-century technology, the Titantic was equipped with the most ingenious safety devices of the time. Yet on a moonlit night in 1912, the "unsinkable" Titantic raced across the glassy Atlantic on her maiden voyage, with only twenty lifeboats for 2,207 passengers. A Night To Remember is the gut-wrenching, minute-by minute account of her fatal collision with an iceberg and how the resulting tragedy brought out the best and worst in human nature. Some gave their lives for others, some fought like animals for survival. Wives beseeched husbands to join them in the boats; gentlemen went taut-lipped to their deaths in full evening dress; hundreds of steerage passengers, trapped belowdecks. Sought help in vain.A Night To RememberFrom the first distress flares to the struggles of those left adrift for hours in freezing waters, here is the legendary disaster relived by the few who survived and can never forget the many who did not.

She was the world's biggest-ever ship. A luxurious miracle of twentieth-century technology, the Titantic was equipped with the most ingenious safety devices of the time. Yet on a moonlit night in 1912, the "unsinkable" Titantic raced across the glassy Atlantic on her maiden voyage, with only twenty lifeboats for 2,207 passengers. A Night To Remember is the gut-wrenching, minute-by minute account of her fatal collision with an iceberg and how the resulting tragedy brought out the best and worst in human nature. Some gave their lives for others, some fought like animals for survival. Wives beseeched husbands to join them in the boats; gentlemen went taut-lipped to their deaths in full evening dress; hundreds of steerage passengers, trapped belowdecks. Sought help in vain.A Night To RememberFrom the first distress flares to the struggles of those left adrift for hours in freezing waters, here is the legendary disaster relived by the few who survived and can never forget the many who did not.

History. Summer 1814, Torn by internal conflict, plagued by an empty treasury, embittered by the human cost of a war that couldn't be won, the United States seemed on the point of collapse. With the British blockade strangling her trade, the economy of the young nation was in ruins, and now Washington itself lay at the mercy of an invading English army.