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Jan S. Doward

Autor(a) de The Seventh Escape

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After many years of teaching, Jan Doward spent 10 years as assistant youth director for the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists. Retired, he and his wife, Loneva, live overlooking the Pacific Ocean near the Victorian village of Ferndale, California, where gray jays eat out of his hand. mostrar mais He has authored a dozen books mostrar menos

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On March 9, 1960, Indonesian Air Force pilot Maukar strafed Sukatno's Palace. After crashlanding his MiG-17. he was captured and held prisoner for eight years.
 
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WaltNoise | 2 outras críticas | Aug 9, 2021 |
Like millions of other Europeans, Walter Logé was caught in the violent vortex of World War II. An ambulance driver in the German army, he was taken prisoner toward the end of the conflict and shipped by boxcar deep into Russia to the gloomy labor camp of Makeyevka. But Logé's indomitable spirit rose above it all, because he was a remarkable man who looked at the world through kindly eyes, who empathized with peasants, guards, soldiers-nearly everyone. All kinds of people, whether German, Romanian, or Russian, were his friends. Though a German himself (with a French surname inherited from Huguenot ancestors), he could strike up a tune on the Russian balalaika and watch the light come back into the eyes of a yardful of gaunt, discouraged prisoners as they began to sing and clap their hands. While in a state of near starvation, he could still joke with his captors: "Why do I want to work in the kitchen? That's where they keep the food, isn't it? "And what other German prisoner just escaped from a coal mine ever marched along a country road with a passel of Russian peasant girls singing the Sunday School song, "Always Cheerful"? Though a pleasant and gentle man, with an almost childlike faith in the goodness of God and in the innate decency of men, Logé owned nerves of Swedish steel, lightning-fast wits, and an incredible determination to escape and somehow cover the many hundreds of miles across the reaches of the Ukraine and Poland westward to Berlin, where his beloved wife and three children awaited him- if they were still alive. This is not just another war story, or merely another chapter in the long, bitter story of man's inhumanity to man. It is not told to work off a grudge. It is not simply a dreary chronicle of misery and brutality, nor is it written to remind us that war brings suffering to the innocent and arouses the worst of human passions. Rather, it is a document of human freedom and brotherhood.… (mais)
 
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FriendsLibraryFL | May 27, 2017 |
Dan entered the runway and lined up. Gradually he opened the throttle to full power. At 150 K MH the nose lifted and the front wheel left the pavement. At 250 K MH the plane was airborne. When the landing gear retracted, the green light indicators went off and the three reds flashed on. Everything was up and locked. Reaching for the gun switches, then pushed the three buttons to load them. Now he was totally committed. As he passed the runway threshold, he flipped on the gunsight switch and back to East, climbing to 4500 feet. He fingered the trigger. 3500 feet. 3000 – – 2800 – – gunsight dead on the first row of tanks – – 2400 feet. A burst of orange tracers spray toward the oil tank target.Dan kept treetop level to avoid radar detection. When he reached the south side of the square, he zoomed up to 3600 feet and turn right to make a dive on the president's palace. He was on a 45° diving angle. When the gunsight.was steadily on the building, he gave a burst from every gun that sent the tracers in a colorful pattern directly toward the target.Dan Maukar's first love was his plane. Then came Molly, a beautiful black haired girl; next, the people of his country. Dan was one of the top 10 Indonesian Air Force pilots chosen for jet training in Egypt.However, Dan found himself being drawn deeper and deeper into the political underground. Incensed by government corruption, he staged his own rebellion with a "runaway" fighter jet.Last tiger out tells the story of a frustrated young man's attempt to change his government by force, and his discovery that change – – constructive, positive change – – comes only when Jesus takes control.… (mais)
 
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FriendsLibraryFL | 2 outras críticas | Sep 6, 2014 |
Drafted! As World War II raged around him, Jan Doward fought his own battles to be classified as a conscientious objector. A wisecracking prankster with acting potential, some of his buddies said he was destined for the stage. But God had another destiny in mind--and a life-changing encounter at sea. Some of Jan's bunkmates knew the Scriptures. One day their testimony hit home. Oh, God! Jan prayed, forgive me for all of my selfish and sinful ways. Forgive me for taking the name of Christ without living His life. You can have all there is of me. It isn't much--only a tough-talking, smart-acting guy-but you can have me! Jan rose from his knees a new man. But his dream of taking over the family ranch would soon be shattered by a letter from his mother. I'd rather have you a thief, she wrote, than a Seventh-day Adventist!' Doward's remarkably detailed chronicle of Army life shows God's providential leading and saving graced for those who dare to stand alone.… (mais)
 
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FriendsLibraryFL | Sep 6, 2014 |

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16
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132
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