Notes

Twenty-three compelling extracts describe key moments in the lives of some of the most heroic men and women in recent history. Mother Theresa, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Gladys Aylward, Nelson Mandela, Dian Fossey, Thomas Edison, Marie Curie, Isambard Brunel, Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, Michael Collins, Terry Anderson, Hannah Senesh, Louis Pasteur.

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Lindbergh, Charles : Test flight drama

Giff, Patricia Reilly : Sister to the poor

Bonington, Chris : Rescue on the Eiger

Sterling, Dorothy : The brilliant Iola

Gracie, Archibald : Struck by an iceberg

Burgess, Alan : The small woman

Brown, Christy : The letter A

Maharaj, S.R.'Mac' : The struggle is my life

Cutting, Pauline : Children of the siege

King Jnr, Martin Luther : A testament of hope

Mowat, Farley : Woman in the mists

Reid, Major P.R. : Escape from Colditz

Clark, Ronald W. : Addled youth

Francis, Clare : Come hell or high water

Scott, Captain Robert F. : Antarctic christmas

Bull, Angela : The mysterious rays

Pudney, John : The Thames tunnel

Seacole, Mary : Adventure in the Crimea

Farmer, Gene - Hambling, Dora Jane : First on the moon

Frank, Anne : A family in hiding

Say, Peggy - Knobler, Peter : Forgotten

Masters, Anthony : Rescue mission

Grant, Madeleine P. : A medical revolution
upper age: 99