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Search - Newsweek Condensed Books: Nurse, A Walk Across America, Prince Jack, Ultra Goes to War, The Searching Spirit

Newsweek Condensed Books Nurse A Walk Across America Prince Jack Ultra Goes to War The Searching Spirit
Author: Peggy Anderson, Peter Jenkins, Frank Spiering, Ronald Lewin, Joy Adamson

Nurse: The True Story of Mary Benjamin, R.N. by Peggy Anderson — Peggy Anderson has brilliantly recorded the thoughts, feelings and experiences of Mary Benjamin, a head nurse in a general hospital located in a large American city. Through her candid, intelligent eyes, we see what it means to be a nurse today: a complex individual, part physician,... more » part psychologist, part mother figure, delicately balancing her humanity with her professionalism, responsible at every working moment for her patients? lives. But a nurse must also seek her personal center. Through Anderson's powerful, eloquent prose we enter the life of Benjamin and become immediately involved in her honest, intimate, unsparing examination of her profession and herself.

A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins

He and his dog Cooper set out on an extraordinary journey in 1973: a long walk that would span the length and breadth of continental America. Peter had become so disillusioned with events in the country that he considered leaving it. Instead, he decided to walk across it, and found "the real America I?d been looking for, at home among the people." Readers who accompany him in this account of the first half of his walk will rediscover America too, as he tells what he found in a joyous celebration of the land and its people.

Prince Jack: The True Story of Jack the Ripper by Frank Spiering

Developed a fascinating theory, backed by impeccable research: that England's most famous murderer, Jack the Ripper, was none other then Prince Albert Victor, heir to the throne and Queen Victoria's grandson. The author had access to a great deal of information supporting his case, some of it officially classified, supplemented by many interviews. The result is a solution to the ultimate murder mystery where the enigmatic outlines of Jack the Ripper, and the cover-up that protected him, are royally filled in.

Ultra Goes to War: The First Accounts of World War II's Greatest Secret Based on Official Documents by Ronald Lewin

The first historian to give us an actual picture of how the greatest secret of World War II worked: Ultra, the method by which the Allies intercepted German radio transmissions and broke their coded contents. For the first rime, actual intercepts are utilized to show how this information was used in combat. In another first, the author has interviewed those responsible for gathering and using the top-secret information. This explosive book will cause the reassessment of every major battle fought in Africa, Europe, and the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.

The Searching Spirit: Joy Adamson's Autobiography by Joy Adamson

She is known to many thousands of people the world over, through the lives of her celebrated animal friends, Elsa the lioness and Pippa the cheetah. Now, the author of Born Free gives us her own story, that of a woman of singular attractiveness, endurance and dedication. Born in Vienna, she found that Africa was to be here destiny. There, she developed her artistic skills and tested her physical courage to the extreme; married adventurer George Adamson; and through her writing, gained a fame which has tested a different sort of courage. This is her inspiring story.

Volume 7 Number 4

ISBN-13: 9780882251813
ISBN-10: 0882251813
Publication Date: 1979
Pages: 576
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Publisher: Newsweek, Inc.
Book Type: Hardcover
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