Jim Bunch

What Is Honor? To honor a person is to regard one's self. Honor at Eight is a book based on actual events from a boy's life growing up in rural Nebraska. This work reveals how an eight-year-old boy learns who he is and what it means to honor others through the example of an imaginative recluse. Jim meets Darryl on the first day of school and from the classroom, to the crawlspace of a house, this story flows from conversations between friends to intense interactions with very strong and peculiar personalities. A volatile gym teacher, an aggressive teenage boy, a medieval knight and a dragon are welded together to forge a boy into something more.

From January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina's "Graveyard of the Atlantic" off the coast of the Outer Banks. German U-boats sank ships in some of the most harrowing sea fighting close to America's shore. Germany's Operation Drumbeat, led by Admiral Karl Donitz, brought fear to the local communities. A Standard oil tanker sank just sixty miles from Cape Hatteras. The U-85 was the first U-boat sunk by American surface forces, and local divers later discovered a rare Enigma machine aboard. Author Jim Bunch traces the destructive history of world war on the shores of the Outer Banks.

From January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina's "Graveyard of the Atlantic" off the coast of the Outer Banks. A Standard oil tanker sank just sixty miles from Cape Hatteras. German U-boats sank ships in