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Henderson, Bruce Bradley
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Henderson, Bruce B.
Geboortedatum
1946-12-18
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Land (voor op de kaart)
USA
Geboorteplaats
Oakland, California, USA
Woonplaatsen
San Francisco, California, USA
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military historian

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Following the Civil War President Grant wanted to unite the country through various ways, one being the exploration of the North Pole masterminded by a two-time Artic explorer from Cincinnati. Fatal North: Adventure and Survival Aboard the USS Polaris, the First U.S. Expedition to the North Pole by Bruce Henderson follows the internally divided and essentially doomed expedition that see’s its leader most likely murdered, and its crew allowed to go undisciplined afterwards that its surprising he was the only casualty.

Henderson essentially follows the expedition from the perspective of George Tyson, a subordinate officer on the ship, who like its leader Captain Charles Francis Hall, wanted to reach the North Pole but is stunned by the lack of motivation and decline of discipline by Hall’s successor. Tyson latter becomes the nominal leader—due to the drastic decline of discipline on the ship—of a group of crew and the expedition’s Inuit abandoned by the ship on the ice and survived six months before rescue. One of the biggest questions that Henderson attempts to tackle is if the expedition’s leader was murdered and if so who did the deed, but the evidence and time result in no hard conclusion.

Fatal North is historical book of adventure and survival with a dash of mystery that Bruce Henderson wraps together in easy-to-read prose that shows great research.
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mattries37315 | 1 andere bespreking | Jun 12, 2022 |
Wow -- Fatal North: Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition, by Bruce Henderson, is an amazing book! First, the amount of research that went into this is amazing. Then, the fact that people are called to explore the harshest, farthest away spots on the planet is amazing. And the story itself -- murder, treachery, endurance in the most horrible of conditions, and such poor and clearly biased inquiry afterwards -- is amazing.
 
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fasterhorses | 1 andere bespreking | Apr 26, 2022 |
Excellent story about a group of German Jews who fought back against the Nazi with courage and dignity that was not accorded them in their German homeland.
 
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psmith65 | 7 andere besprekingen | Jul 20, 2021 |
Lasciarono la Germania per salvarsi. Tornarono per combattere i nazisti.
Negli anni trenta un gruppo di ragazzi ebrei riuscì ad abbandonare la Germania e a iniziare una nuova vita in America. Nonostante il permesso di arruolarsi nell’esercito, furono sempre considerati come stranieri di cui diffidare. Finché nel 1942 il Pentagono non comprese quale incredibile risorsa potessero rappresentare. Quegli uomini conoscevano la lingua, la cultura e la psicologia del nemico meglio di qualsiasi americano ed erano, più di chiunque altro, motivati a lottare contro il regime antisemita di Hitler. Fu così che fecero ritorno in Europa come “Ritchie Boys”, un’unità segreta dell’esercito americano. Addestrati nell’arte di interrogare prigionieri, duemila soldati ebrei vennero rispediti nella Germania nazista, in prima linea sui campi di battaglia. Il loro scopo era ottenere dai prigionieri di guerra informazioni vitali sui movimenti delle truppe e le strutture di comando: un’operazione che ebbe un enorme successo e si dimostrò decisiva per la vittoria delle forze Alleate. Alcuni di quegli eroi sono ancora vivi. (fonte: amazon)… (meer)
 
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