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    The Forgotten Heroes: Untold Stories of the Extraordinary World War II - Courage, Survival, Resistance and Rescue Mission
    The Forgotten Heroes: Untold Stories of the Extraordinary World War II - Courage, Survival, Resistance and Rescue Mission
    The Forgotten Heroes: Untold Stories of the Extraordinary World War II - Courage, Survival, Resistance and Rescue Mission
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    The Forgotten Heroes: Untold Stories of the Extraordinary World War II - Courage, Survival, Resistance and Rescue Mission

    By Scott S. F. Meaker

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    This is a short and Untold Stories of the Extraordinary World War II - Courage, Survival, Resistance and Rescue Mission.

    As a guide to understanding the enormity of the impact of the war, there were more than 16 million Americans who served in World War II. There were 60 other countries also involved in the war. There were about 70 million people killed in the war. This is about one-quarter of all the people on earth at that time.

    Many of the heroes were not recognized in their lifetimes and some ended in lessened circumstances or torture and death because of their efforts to save lives during the agonies of war.

    Millions died but millions were saved by thousands of actions by people caught in a war that seemed like it would never end.
    Some of the stories are captured here.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScott S. F. Meaker
    Release dateJun 17, 2014
    ISBN9781498904452

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      The Forgotten Heroes - Scott S. F. Meaker

      The Forgotten Heroes: Untold Stories of the Extraordinary World War II - Courage, Survival, Resistance and Rescue Mission

      by

      Scott S. F. Meaker

      Copyright © 2013 by Scott S. F. Meaker

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the author or publisher except for the use of brief quotations in articles or reviews.

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Introduction

      This is a collection of anecdotes about people who did strange and dangerous things to save others during the tumultuous period from 1939 to 1945 when the world was at war.

      In talking about forgotten heroes, the challenge is that we often don’t know their names because they did what they had to do alone and in secret as often as not. Many of the heroes were not recognized in their lifetimes and some ended in lessened circumstances or torture and death because of their efforts to save lives during the agonies of war.

      World War II Overview

      The Second World War spread around the globe and providing dates for its beginning and its end is not a simple matter of noting a specific date when it began and when it ended. The official declaration of war was made by various countries over a period of nearly five years. It was like a virus that spread from a war in Europe to involve the entire world. Countries lined up, taking sides in the great conflict. The Nazi dream was to rule the world through sheer power.

      The Axis Countries were Germany, Italy, and Japan at the beginning of the war and other countries joined as the war progressed.

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