Missions Impossible: Extraordinary Stories of Daring and Courage

by Hazel Flynn

110 incredible true stories torn from the pages of history. From Ancient Greece to the hunt and killing of Bin Laden, here are incredible acts of bravery, courage and derring-do that have in one fell swoop changed the world. Missions Extraordinary Stories of Daring and Courage is a fascinating encyclopedia of 110 such stories from around the world. More than 300 photographs and illustrations highlight the brief text, which describes the events chronologically. A summary list notes the Date, Location, Objective, and Forces or People involved. A timeline and maps together show the events step by step. These are the stories burned in our memory, but do we know what really happened? And the incredible courage they took? The stories Age of Heroism Age of Subterfuge Age of Derring- Do Age of Dirty Tricks Special Operations Cold Wars The Age of Terror This is an exciting book for readers of war, history, and espionage.

Genres: History, Military Fiction, Reference, Adventure

256 pages, Paperback

First published September 2, 2014

Reviews

[Eric Graves · Rating 2 out of 5]

I thought this would have a little more depth with each episode but after a strong start it became nearly unreadable by the time I got to the WWII raids. Half of them, if not more were a failure and didn’t seem to have an impact on the war effort. The raids early in the book for the most part did have an impact on history. I’m not belittling the lives lost in the failed raids and many of them did lead to success/lessons down the road but to me they could have either been skipped or combined with the successful ones. The other flaw is that there is more information on Wikipedia than the two pages the author spends on the raids. If for some of the more influential raids the author expanded the info to 4 pages that also could have helped.

[James Corona]

It was very intense and iteresting. My favorite was the trojan