Turning Point, Michael Burgan
Turning Point, Michael Burgan
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Turning Point
The Story of the D-Day Landings

Author: Michael Burgan

Narrator: Various Narrators

Unabridged: 1 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Capstone Press

Published: 08/10/2017


Synopsis

In an immersive, exciting narrative nonfiction format, this powerful book follows a selection of people who experienced the D-Day invasion.

About Michael Burgan

Michael Burgan has written more than 250 books for children and young adults. His specialty is history, with an emphasis on biography. A graduate of the University of Connecticut with a degree in history, Burgan is also a produced playwright and the editor of The Biographer’s Craft, the newsletter for Biographers International Organization. He first started writing for children as an editor at Weekly Reader before beginning his freelance career in 1994. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.


Reviews

Goodreads review by John on March 07, 2020

Didn't enjoy it as much as starting point. In particular the repetition of essays on "old man thinks childhood is ruined now" got very tedious.......more

Goodreads review by Samantha on June 17, 2014

This second volume (vs. Starting Point, which covers 1979-1996, published 2009) compiles more interviews, essays, notes, and writings from one of my favorite filmmakers. If you loved the former, you will probably love this volume equally though I find the content in Starting Point more diverse and co......more

Goodreads review by Adrian on July 22, 2018

I really wished we would have gotten some insight into Howl's Moving Castle but there is really nothing said about it (the contents sections is perhaps a bit misleading for this text). However, this collections of interviews, essays, and project proposals offers great insight into what shaped Miyaza......more

Goodreads review by Romane on March 08, 2024

miyazaki says shit like “films have the power not only to salve our discontents with the world but to make us realize the yearnings within our hearts” then BOOM a whole chapter about japanese road-building......more

Goodreads review by Cameron on April 18, 2015

This book is as interesting as the first, but the subject is very different. Miyazaki is more interested in life, nature, and society in this time period. He talks in depth about these, in this collection of speeches, interviews, and production notes. The Ghibli museum was set up during this time to......more