James Campbell
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
An account of two pivotal events from July 1944 explores the battle for Saipan as central to the defeat of Japan and traces the Port Chicago Naval Ammunition Depot explosion that led to the largest mutiny trial in U.S. naval history.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to only a handful of people, is a harsh and lonely place. So when James Campbell's cousin Heimo Korth asked him to spend a summer building a cabin in the rugged Interior, Campbell hesitated about inviting his fifteen-year-old daughter, Aidan, to join him: Would she be able to withstand clouds of mosquitoes, the threat of grizzlies, bathing in an ice-cold river, and hours of grueling labor peeling and...