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History and Current Events March 2023 |
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Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
by Buddy Levy
What it's about: the ill-fated voyage of the Karluk, which began in the summer of 1913 as part of the Canadian Arctic Expedition.
What happened: Shortly after launch, the ship became icebound and sank; captain Bob Bartlett, accompanied by an Inuit hunter, trekked nearly 1,000 miles to seek help for the survivors.
Read it for: a dramatic and richly detailed tale of courage and survival.
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The Greatest Escape
by Neil Churches
The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War, organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy..
How these three men came together, along with the partisans, to plan and execute the escape is told here for the first time. The Greatest Escape takes us from Ralph and Les's capture in Greece in 1941 and their brutal journey to Maribor, with many POWs being murdered along the way, to the horror of seeing Russian prisoners starved to death in the camp. The book uncovers the hidden story of Allied intelligence operations in Slovenia, and shows how Ralph was recruited. We follow the escapees on a nail-biting 160-mile journey across the Alps, pursued by German soldiers, ambushed and betrayed. And yet, of the 106 men who escaped, 100 made it to safety. Thanks to research across seven countries, The Greatest Escape is no longer a secret. It is one of the most remarkable adventure stories of the last century.
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The betrayal of Anne Frank : a cold case investigation
by Rosemary Sullivan
Using a new technology, recently discovered documents, and sophisticated investigative techniques, a retired FBI agent and a cold case team painstakingly pieced together the months leading to the infamous arrest of Anne Frank and her family--and came to a shocking conclusion.
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The ruin of all witches : life and death in the New World
by Malcolm Gaskill
Taking readers back in time to Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1651 by drawing on rich, previously unexplored source material, this gripping narrative combines history, anthropology, sociology, politics, theology and psychology to evoke a strange past, one where lives were steeped in the divine and the diabolic, in omens, curses and enchantments.
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