Julian Jackson
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Few things shocked the world more in the terrible month of June 1940 than seeing Marshal Philippe Pétain-a highly decorated hero of the first world war-shaking hands with Hitler. Pausing to look at the cameras, he announced that France would henceforth collaborate with Germany. "This is my policy," he intoned. "My ministers are responsible to me. It is I alone who will be judged by History." Five years later, in July 1945, Pétain was put on trial...
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 21
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
In 1854, after being wounded while serving as a drummer in the British army in the Crimean War, twelve-year-old Robbie Robinson is cared for by Florence Nightingale and becomes involved in her efforts to improve the medical care of the sick and wounded soldiers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
In 1660, after his father is imprisoned in the Tower of London, Richard Winslow goes to stay with his uncle who is in charge of the Bedford jail and there meets and is helped by the Puritan preacher John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress.
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 18
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Hamilton Jones seeks revenge against the former captain of the ship on which his mother had been taken from Africa to slavery in the Colonies.
11) Trial by poison
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House Pub
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
In 1888, change arrives in a small village in Calabar, Nigeria in the form of a courageous missionary named Mary.
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 16
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Gilbert Hamilton is left alone on the frontier when his father is killed and his mother is kidnapped by Sauk Indians during the War of 1812. Haunted by memories of his mother, Gil attends a camp meeting led by Peter Cartwright, a Methodist circuit-rider evangelist. Cartwright allows the boy to move with his family to Illinois, where Gil can begin the search for his mother.
14) The hidden jewel
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
While traveling in the south of India, fourteen-year-old John and his mother encounter the Irish missionary Amy Carmichael and find themselves drawn into helping the work of the Dohnavur Fellowship.
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 14
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
In Antwerp, Belgium, in 1543, after his mother is arrested as a heretic, fifteen-year-old Adriaen Wens flees with the Anabaptist preacher Menno Simons and must decide whether to turn Simons in to save his mother from death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
While searching for his younger brother who has been "sold" to be trained as a chimney sweep in eighteenth-century London, thirteen-year-old Ned meets the itinerant preacher John Wesley whose message changes the lives of his entire family.