Andrew Higgins & The Boats That Landed Victory HC

Andrew Higgins & The Boats That Landed Victory

By: Nancy Rust and Carol Stubbs 
Illustrated By: Brock Nicol
Hardcover
32 Pages
2020

Andrew Higgins built boats that could "crunch through driftwood, bounce over logs, climb a beach," and "wham up on a sloping concrete sea wall." In World War II, that was exactly what was needed to get soldiers and Jeeps from the ocean to land. This biography for young readers traces the invention of the legendary Higgins boat--and the adventurous childhood of the remarkable man behind it.

Click here to join curator Josh Schick and Authors Nancy Rust and Carol Stubbs as they discuss their new book, Andrew Higgins and the Boats That Landed Victory in WWII, published by Pelican Publishing.