Brave Men in Desperate Times Sue E. Levkoff A timeline on the inside

A timeline on the inside back cover compares and contrasts benchmark events in Ross's life and career with important events in flight and space travel history

the public library

outlaws were swept from their lairs and whipped

humour is often the best medicine

politically corrupt

Brave Men in Desperate Times Sue E. Levkoff A timeline on the insideWhat was it like to be a soldier in combat during the Civil War? What was it like to be a poorly trained, ill equipped, and un uniformed militiaman in a state "army" trying to, literally, defend your own home? What was it like to be stuffed into a dank, dark, sweltering, three foot diameter iron tube, turning a crank to escape an enemy howling after you, all while thirty feet below the surface of Charleston Harbor? What was it like to be a Creek