Contents

Contents : Foreword -- TEST FLIGHT DRAMA - Charles Lindbergh (from Autobiography of Values) -- SISTER TO THE POOR - Patricia Reilly Giff (from Mother Teresa) -- RESCUE ON THE EIGER - Chris Bonington (from I Chose to Climb) -- THE BRILLIANT IOLA - Dorothy Sterling (from Black Foremothers) -- STRUCK BY AN ICEBERG - Archibald Gracie (from Titanic - A Survivor’s Story -- THE SMALL WOMAN an extract - Alan Burgess -- THE LETTER ‘A’ - Christy Brown (from My Left Foot) -- THE STRUGGLE IS MY LIFE an extract - S.R. ‘Mac’ Maharaj -- A TESTAMENT OF HOPE an extract - Dr Martin Luther King Jnr -- WOMAN IN THE MISTS an extract - Farley Mowatt -- ESCAPE FROM COLDITZ - Major P.R. Reid (from Colditz - The Full Story) -- “ADDLED YOUTH” Ronald W. Clark (from Edison : The Man who made the future) -- COME HELL OR HIGH WATER an extract - Clare Francis; ANTARCTIC CHRISTMAS - Captain Robert F. Scott (from The Voyage of the Discovery) -- THE MYSTERIOUS RAYS - Angella Bull (from Marie Curie) -- THE THAMES TUNNEL - John Pudney (from Brunel and his World) -- ADVENTURE IN THE CRIMEA - Mary Seacole (from Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole) -- FIRST ON THE MOON an extract - Gene Farmer & Dora Jane Hambling -- A FAMILY IN HIDING - Anne Frank (from The Diary of Anne Frank) -- FORGOTTEN an extract - Peggy Say & Peter Knobler -- RESCUE MISSION - Anthony Masters -- A MEDICAL REVOLUTION - Madeleine P. Grant (from Louis Pasteur) -- Index.