Raid of no return : a World War II tale of the Doolittle Raid

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Raid of no return : a World War II tale of the Doolittle Raid

Author:

Hale, Nathan, 1976- author.

ISBN:

9781419725562

Physical Description:

124 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.

Series:

Nathan Hale's hazardous tales ;

General Note:

Maps on liner papers.

Reading Level:

GN 480 L Lexile

Personal Subject:

Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993-Comic books, strips, etc.

Subject Term:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American -- Comic books, strips, etc.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Geographic Term:

Tokyo (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1942.

Tokyo (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1942 -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Genre:

Graphic novels.

Summary:

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, officially bringing the United States into World War II. A new generation of pilots were recruited to fly bombing missions for the United States, and from that group, volunteers were requested for a dangerous secret assignment. For the first time in American history, Army bombers would be launched from an aircraft carrier.

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Lake Elmo Library	J GRAPHIC HAL	Searching... Unknown
Searching... R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)	J GRAPHIC HAL	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Stillwater Public Library	J GRAPHIC HAL	Searching... Unknown

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In author-illustrator Nathan Hale's Raid of No Return , go behind the scenes of World War II's top-secret Doolittle Raid with the New York Times bestselling Hazardous Tales graphic novel series!

"These books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . . Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history." -- New York Times

Presented in the author's instantly recognizable artistic and storytelling style, this colorful, exciting book of history for kids starts with a brief explanation of the events leading up to World War II and then describes the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the Japanese and American points of view.

The American response was a super-secret counterattack organized by stunt pilot Jimmy Doolittle. Just four months after Pearl Harbor, American crews would launch sixteen B-25 bombers from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet to drop bombs on the Japanese capital Tokyo and then fly to safety in China. Everything about the mission was as dangerous as it was secret. B-25s were not designed to take off from an aircraft carrier. Japan had formidable air defenses. There was no way to plan for landing in China or returning safely to America.

The Doolittle Raid, as it became known, went down in military history as one of the most creative and harrowing missions of World War II. The pilots and crews became American heroes.

Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales! Read them all--if you dare!

One Dead Spy: A Revolutionary War Tale (#1)

Big Bad Ironclad!: A Civil War Tale (#2)

Donner Dinner Party: A Pioneer Tale (#3)

Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood: A World War I Tale (#4)

The Underground Abductor: An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman (#5)

Alamo All-Stars: A Texas Tale (#6)

Raid of No Return: A World War II Tale of the Doolittle Raid (#7)

Lafayette!: A Revolutionary War Tale (#8)

Major Impossible: A Grand Canyon Tale (#9)

Blades of Freedom: A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase (#10)

Cold War Correspondent: A Korean War Tale (#11)

Above the Trenches: A WWI Flying Ace Tale (#12)

Author Notes

Nathan Hale is the #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales series. He also wrote and illustrated the graphic novels One Trick Pony and Apocalypse Taco . Hale lives in Utah, and you can find him online.

Reviews (2)

Horn Book Review

Nathan Hale, Revolutionary War hero, continues to distract his executioners in this seventh graphic novel. The focus here is on the United States' secret Doolittle air raid on Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. As always, irreverent humor makes a complicated and harrowing story more accessible; readers will appreciate the compelling history lesson (provided they're not put off by the small panel illustrations and tiny type). Bib. (c) Copyright 2019. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

As in other entries in the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales series, the American patriot Nathan Hale has another story of historical derring-do for his captors. Following the aftermath of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a group of pilots volunteers for a secret mission. With absolutely no knowledge of the purpose of the mission and after weeks of bizarre training, the 16 bombing teams are finally told what their mission would be: to bomb Tokyo and create uncertainty within the empire. As always, Hale's strength comes from the details. His maps and charts cogently capture the history and vast scale of these events the before and after drawings of Pearl Harbor are especially harrowing but he also pinpoints human impact in the tiny stories that accompany the overarching narrative, like the gunner who broke his glasses and couldn't see clearly yet continued with the mission. Since this is still a relatively unknown part of American history, readers of all ages will be on edge to see who survives and the results of the possibly doomed mission. Another victory for a perennially useful series.--Peter Blenski Copyright 2018 Booklist

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