Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, World War II, and the Long Journey Home - Brossura

Moore, Gary W.

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ISBN 10: 0143113887 ISBN 13: 9780143113881

Casa editrice: Penguin Books, 2008

Riassunto

Describes how the sports career of the author's father, a baseball phenom, was cut short by the onset of World War II and by his chance assignment to a secret mission for the U.S. Navy--to guard a select group of German POWs, the crew of the submarine U-205. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Gary W. Moore is the author of the critically acclaimed book Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, World War II, and the Long Journey Home, which won the 2006 Military Writers Society of America Book of the Year. Moore is also a contributing author for Chicken Soup for the Father & Son Soul. He was awarded the prestigious Sam Walton Leadership Award in 1996. He has made appearances on CNN, ABC, and CBS.

In three months, Jim Morris went from being a 35 year-old high school teacher to a major league baseball pitcher. He wrote the foreword to Gary W. Moore’s Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, World War II, and the Long Journey Home.

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Book by Moore Gary W

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• Editore: Penguin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0143113887
• ISBN 13: 9780143113881
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336