A propos de l'auteur
Bruce B. Henderson is professor of psychology at Western Carolina University
Œuvres de Bruce B. Henderson
Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler (2017) 336 exemplaires
Fatal North: adventure and survival aboard the USS Polaris, the first U.S. expedition to the North Pole (2001) 129 exemplaires
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1946-12-18
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Oakland, California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- San Francisco, California, USA
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Critiques
Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who… par Bruce Henderson
Extraordinary book. Well researched. Doesn't hide the good, the bad and the horrendous! I am usually not one to like books about military history, but this book was very fascinating.
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.… (plus d'informations)
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.… (plus d'informations)
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.
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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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 1,022
- Popularité
- #25,209
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 27
- ISBN
- 69
- Langues
- 3
