Bruce Henderson (1) (1946–)
Auteur van Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler
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Bruce Henderson (1) via een alias veranderd in Bruce B. Henderson.
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- Officiële naam
- 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
- Beroepen
- military historian
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- 7
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- 974
- Populariteit
- #26,441
- Waardering
- 4.0
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- 26
- ISBNs
- 96
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- 4
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.… (meer)