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Ten nailbiting stories of reallife escapes In 1979 the streets of Irans capital city Tehran turned ugly Six Americans caught in the uprising found protection at the Canadian embassy Through the feverish efforts of the embassy staff the fugitives were disguised as Canadians complete with fictitious passports and were able to escape the country History is full of such daring escapes often creative always heartpounding Escapes recounts ten of these nailbiting tales Discover Lady Nithsdales ruse to free her husband from the impenetrable Tower of London in 1716 Fall into Douglas Baders harrowing escape from a plummeting Spitfire in World War II Hold your breath as two families drift over the Berlin Wall in a homemade hotair balloon From getaway gladiators to runaway slaves from the endless Sahara to the impassable Bastille each exciting story will have young readers eager to escape into the next Key Features Fascinating true stories of ingenuity drama suspense and heroics Stories from throughout history from ancient Rome to the modern day Black amp white line drawings with each story
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Protect your family with the Kidde 2Story Fire Escape Ladder a lifesaving fire escape ladder that offers quick and easy escape from twostory home fires and other emergencies The Kidde 2Story Fire Escape Ladder is tanglefree deploys quickly to 13 ft and attaches quickly to most windows To prevent slipping and ensure a safe descent each rung is manufactured with antislip zincplated steel metal that can support up to 750 pounds on one rung or 1000 pounds when the load is distributed on more than one rung Each rung is measured 1 ft wide Red nylon straps provide a strong durable grip for rails Designed for compact storage the Kidde 2Story Fire Escape Ladder fits easily under a bed or in a closet near the window For your safety the National Fire Protection Association NFPA recommends storing 1 ladder in every occupied room of your home that is above the main level To use simply open the Kidde Escape Ladder and place the attachment hooks over the windowsill and pull the release strap to unfurl the ladder The Kidde Fire Escape Ladder is designed for onetime use only Discard after single use Reusing the ladder may result in injury or death UL listed with a 5year limited warranty Also available from Kidde 3Story Escape Ladder
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Escape The True Story of sold at 51.53 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Klong Prem prison Thailand known as the Bangkok Hilton is a placenbspwhere 600 foreigners wait and rot among the 12000 inmates Amid the tragic ruthless and forgotten one man resolves to do what no other has done escape This is the true story of drug smuggler David McMillans perilous breakout from Asias most notorious prison After being arrested at Don Muang airport McMillan spentnbspmore thannbspa year in Klong Plem awaiting trial He watched as the other foreign prisoners fell prey to disease violence and despair Death appeared to be their only way out but he resolved that this would not be the end for him Two weeks before a nearcertain death sentence McMillan escaped never to be seen in Thailand again In this gripping account he reveals the nightmare of existence in this infamous jail and explains how he made his hazardous jailbreak
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Find tips, reviews, and features on No Escape The True Story sold for 22.94 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
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Find tips, reviews, and features on True Escape Stories Adventure sold for 72.87 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Collects eight stories of escapes from jail prison and military prison from around the world most from the Second World War
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Albanian Escape The True Story, priced at 39.03 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
On November 8 1943 US Army nurse Agnes Jensen stepped out of a cold rain into a C53 transport plane But she and twelve other nurses never arrived in Bari Italy where they were to transport wounded soldiers to hospitals farther from the front lines A violent storm and pursuit by German Messerschmitts led to a crash landing in a remote part of Albania leaving the nurses their team of medics and flight crew stranded in Germanoccupied territory What followed was a dangerous nineweek game of hideandseek with the enemy a situation President Roosevelt monitored daily Albanian partisans aided the stranded Americans in the search for a British Intelligence Mission and the group began a long and hazardous journey to the Adriatic coast During the following weeks they crossed Albanias second highest mountain in a blizzard were strafed by German planes managed to flee a town moments before it was bombed and watched helplessly as an attempt to airlift them out was foiled by German forces Albanian Escape is the suspensefilled story of the only group of Army flight nurses to have crashlanded and spent any length of time in occupied territory during World War II The nurses and soldiers endured fridgid weather survived on little food and literally wore out their shoes trekking across the rugged countryside Thrust into a perilous situation and determined to survive these women found courage and strength in each other and in the kindnesses of Albanians and guerrillas who hid them from the Germans
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On November 8 1943 US Army nurse Agnes Jensen stepped out of a cold rain in Catania Sicily into a C53 transport plane But she and twelve other nurses never arrived in Bari Italy where they were to transport wounded soldiers to hospitals farther from the front lines A violent storm and pursuit by German Messerschmitts led to a crash landing in a remote part of Albania leaving the nurses their team of medics and the flight crew stranded in Nazioccupied territory What followed was a dangerous nineweek game of hideandseek with the enemy a situation President Roosevelt monitored daily Albanian partisans aided the stranded Americans in the search for a British Intelligence Mission and the group began a long and hazardous journey to the Adriatic coast During the following weeks they crossed Albanias second highest mountain in a blizzard were strafed by German planes managed to flee a town moments before it was bombed and watched helplessly as an attempt to airlift them out was foiled by Nazi forces Albanian Escape is the suspensefilled story of the only group of Army flight nurses to have spent any length of time in occupied territory during World War II The nurses and flight crew endured frigid weather survived on little food and literally wore out their shoes trekking across the rugged countryside Thrust into a perilous situation and determined to survive these women found courage and strength in each other and in the kindness of Albanians and guerrillas who hid them from the Germans
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Escape Usborne True Stories sold for 99.63 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Presents stories of real audacious and unlikely escapes from prisons and prison camps throughout the world
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Escape From Hell The True sold for 26.25 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Alfred Wetzler was a true hero His escape from Auschwitz and the report he helped compile telling for the first time the truth about the camp as a place of mass murder led directly to saving the lives of 120000 Jews the Jews of Budapest who were about to be deported to their deaths No other single act in the Second World War saved so many Jews from the fate that Hitler and the SS had determined for them This book tells Wetzlers storynbspnbspnbspnbspSir Martin Gilbert Wetzler is a master at evoking the universe of Auschwitz and especially his and Vrbas harrowing flight to Slovakia The daybyday account of the tremendous difficulties the pair faced after the Nazis had called off their search of the camp and its surroundings is both riveting and heart wrenching Shining vibrantly through the pages of the memoir are the tenacity and valor of two young men who sought to inform the world about the greatest outrage ever committed by humans against their fellow humansnbspnbspnbspnbspFrom Introduction by Dr Robert Rozett Together with another young Slovak Jew both of them deported in 1942 the author succeeded in escaping from the notorious death camp in the spring of 1944 There were some very few successful escapes from Auschwitz during the war but it was these two who smuggled out the damning evidence a ground plan of the camp constructional details of the gas chambers and crematoriums and most convincingly a label from a canister of Cyclone gas The present book is cast in the form of a novel to allow factual information not personally collected by the two fugitives but provided for them by a handful of reliable friends to be included Nothing however has been invented It is a shocking account of Nazi genocide and of the inhuman conditions in the camp but equally shocking is the initial disbelief the fugitives revelations met with after their return
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Alfred Wetzler was a true hero His escape from Auschwitz and the report he helped compile telling for the first time the truth about the camp as a place of mass murder led directly to saving the lives of 120000 Jews the Jews of Budapest who were about to be deported to their deaths No other single act in the Second World War saved so many Jews from the fate that Hitler and the SS had determined for them This book tells Wetzlers storynbspnbspnbspnbspSir Martin Gilbert Wetzler is a master at evoking the universe of Auschwitz and especially his and Vrbas harrowing flight to Slovakia The daybyday account of the tremendous difficulties the pair faced after the Nazis had called off their search of the camp and its surroundings is both riveting and heart wrenching Shining vibrantly through the pages of the memoir are the tenacity and valor of two young men who sought to inform the world about the greatest outrage ever committed by humans against their fellow humansnbspnbspnbspnbspFrom Introduction by Dr Robert Rozett Together with another young Slovak Jew both of them deported in 1942 the author succeeded in escaping from the notorious death camp in the spring of 1944 There were some very few successful escapes from Auschwitz during the war but it was these two who smuggled out the damning evidence a ground plan of the camp constructional details of the gas chambers and crematoriums and most convincingly a label from a canister of Cyclone gas The present book is cast in the form of a novel to allow factual information not personally collected by the two fugitives but provided for them by a handful of reliable friends to be included Nothing however has been invented It is a shocking account of Nazi genocide and of the inhuman conditions in the camp but equally shocking is the initial disbelief the fugitives revelations met with after their return
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Escape to the Forest Based sold for 100.44 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
When the Nazis invade Poland nothing is safe anymore Tenyearold Sarah and her family must leave their home and live in a Jewish ghetto surrounded by barbed wire There life is a nightmare of cold and hunger where Nazi soldiers kill Jews at will But Sarah still hears stories that give her hopestories about a man who lives in the nearby forest fighting the Nazis and sheltering the JewsSarahs brother thinks they should try to escape to the forest Her parents think they will be safer where they are Sarah doesnt know who is right But as life in the ghetto grows worse and worse the forest may be their only hope Based on a true story of life during the Holocaust this is a heartrending novel of one familys struggle to survive
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Escape Evasion and Revenge The sold at 24.22 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Peter Stevens was a GermanJewish refugee who escaped Nazi persecution as a teenager in 1933 He joined the RAF in 1939 and after eighteen months of pilot training he started flying bombing missions against his own country He completed twentytwo missions before being shot down and taken prisoner by the Nazis in September 1941 To escape became his raison detre and his great advantage was that he was in his native country He was recaptured after each of his several escapes but the Nazis never realized his true identity He took part in the logistics and planning of several major breakouts including The Great Escape but was never successful in getting back to EnglandAfter liberation when the true nature of his exploits came to light he was awarded the Military Cross He then served as a British spy at the beginning of the Cold War before emigrating to Canada to resume a normal life This is the story of a heavily conflicted young man alone in a world that is in the mids
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At the age of seventeen Lewis Alsamari was conscripted into Saddam Husseins army The training was brutal with discipline enforced by regular beatings and desertion punishable by mutilation or imprisonment Somehow Lewis made it through and thanks in part to his fluent English was soon offered a post in Iraqi military intelligence The job would have made him powerful comfortably wealthy and a cog in Saddam Husseins massive machine of terror Unable to accept becoming a member of Saddams secret police yet knowing that turning down this honor would be considered treasonous Lewis made plans to flee Iraq His escape was fraught with perilhe was shot detained at borders even pursued by hungry wolves across the desertbut the teenager made his way to Jordan then Malaysia and finally to England where he was granted political asylum Lewis began building a life for himself even falling in love and getting married But he was haunted by thoughts of the loved ones he left behind in Iraq his uncles words echoing in his ears we are sending you to freedom so that one day you may rescue us from this place One day shocking news arrived because of his escape Lewiss familyincluding his mother and sisterhad been interrogated beaten and thrown into prison Frantic with guilt and worry Lewis was forced to steal the thousands of dollars he needed to buy their release and smuggle them out of Iraq Then accompanied by his wife he embarked on a desperate journey in hope of bringing his family to freedom Escape from Saddam is a powerful nonfiction thriller that even as it plunges the reader into a netherworld of crooked border police military checkpoints counterfeiters and smugglers provides a fascinating window into a totalitarian regime It is also a remarkably inspirational story of a resourceful young man who refused to accept his fate and then risked everything hed achieved to save his family
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Peter Stevens was a GermanJewish refugee who escaped Nazi persecution as a teenager in 1933 He joined the RAF in 1939 and after eighteen months of pilot training he started flying bombing missions against his own country He completed twentytwo missions before being shot down and taken prisoner by the Nazis in September 1941 To escape became his raison detre and his great advantage was that he was in his native country He was recaptured after each of his several escapes but the Nazis never realized his true identity He took part in the logistics and planning of several major breakouts including The Great Escape but was never successful in getting back to EnglandAfter liberation when the true nature of his exploits came to light he was awarded the Military Cross He then served as a British spy at the beginning of the Cold War before emigrating to Canada to resume a normal life This is the story of a heavily conflicted young man alone in a world that is in the mids
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2tier cat house offering a delightful sanctuary for your beloved feline companions Crafted from sturdy fir wood its robust structure ensures longlasting durability while the smooth finish adds a touch of elegance The allweather asphalt roof provides protection from the elements ensuring your pets stay cozy and dry yearround With thoughtful features like escape doors and jumping platforms its designed with your cats comfort and safety in mind Whether indoors or outdoors this versatile pet house provides a secure and inviting space for cats small dogs rabbits and more Easy to assemble and irresistibly charming its a musthave for pet lovers everywhere
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This 2 story outdoor cat house Wheatherproof is designed with ample space 30 in L x 22 in W x 29 in H suitable for 23 cats Cat house with Waterproof PVC roof and extend small roof of the door are perfect for indoor and outdoor use Your pets will enjoy the Sunlight The Cats Condo designed with balcony rest room and side stairs provide comfortable playing and sleeping room equipped with a side escape door for their safety
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Spacious DesignThis 2 story outdoor cat house weatherproof is designed with ample space 30 in L x 22 in W x 29 in H suitable for 23 cats Cat house with Waterproof PVC roof and extend small roof of the door are perfect for indoor and outdoor use Your pets will enjoy the sunlight The Cats Condo designed with balcony rest room and side stairs provide comfortable playing and sleeping room equipped with a side escape door for their safety The front door of the cat house is fitted with a curtain to keep the cat warm in winter100 solid Fir wood of this wooden pet house with water based painting Ecofriendly to protect your small animals Highest quality craftsmanship cat house Uniform surface the floor is laying Flat
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This is the first in a line of four books within the National Geographic Kids Chapters series that tell the true and hilarious stories of animals that love hijinks In this book youll meet three naughty animals including Fu Manchu the orangutan escape artist Fu Manchu lived at the Omaha Zoo and would routinely break out of his habitat to explore the zoo on a nice day Zookeepers were baffled as to how the ape was escaping until one day they caught him in the act Fu Manchu knew how to pick locks Not only that he had created his own tool that he used to pick the locks with which he would store in his mouth so as not to be found out This and two other charming stories will engage readers and leave them wondering if humans are really the smartest animalsNational Geographic supports K12 educators with ELA Common Core ResourcesVisitnbspwwwnatgeoedorgcommoncorenbspfor more information
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