Résultats pour "Hunter" dans Fiction historique

Zenji Wgraduates from high school in Hawaii and is recruited into the army as a translator because he speaks perfect Japanese. He is sent to Manila undercover as a civilian to gather information on the Japanese in the Philippines. If they discover his identity, he’ll be executed as a traitor. When captured, he maintains that he is an American civilian despite unthinkable torture. He also survives being lost in the jungle for months.

Hannah, at only 17, has been married only a few months when her new husband Caswell announced to her they would be traveling west to work with his uncle. Hannah hated the idea of leaving her family, her home, and all she knew to travel by a wagon train west. While with the wagon train, they endured sever storms, livestock stampedes, and death. But one of the worst things the young couple had to face was being left behind by the wagon train when Caswell appears to have come down with a contagious disease.

Southern Illinois is a place of mixed emotions as the American Civil War erupts. For the Creightons, the war lures two sons to the Union army and one to the Confederacy, leaving 10-year-old Jethro to care for the family farm. As the war rages, Jethro does whatever he can to learn about the fates of his brothers, while the Creighton family faces its own danger. Some townspeople can’t forgive the Creightons for having a rebel son-and they’re willing to use violence to make their feelings known. In a state torn by conflicting loyalties, Jethro is forced to grow up quickly to preserve his family and their home.