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7 Sep 2020

Torpedoed

by Andrew Speno | posted in: Good Reads: Nonfiction, WWII | 0

The full title of Deborah Heiligman’s latest work of narrative nonfiction–Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of the “Children’s Ship”–has all the elements to attract readers. It promises adventure, a survival story, in a World War … Continued

Deborah Heiligman, life raft, submarines, torpedoes, WWII
25 May 2019

Eddie Rickenbacker’s Pacific Ordeal

by Andrew Speno | posted in: Eddie Rickenbacker, WWII, WWII: Pacific Theater | 0

Before and after. Before, he was a gadfly, goading leaders to hasten the age of aviation. After, he was a Jeremiah, warning against complacency, denouncing featherbedding. In between, there was a twenty-three-day ordeal on the Pacific. Because he survived, he … Continued

Eddie Rickenbacker, Henry Stimson, life raft, Pacific, WWII

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