81 Days Below Zero The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska s

Informationen zum Autor Brian Murphy is a journalist at the Washington Post. He joined the paper after more than twenty years as an award-winning foreign correspondent and bureau chief for the Associated Press in Europe and the Middle East. He has three previous books, including 81 Days Below Zero, and currently lives in Washington with his wife Toula Vlahou. Klappentext "A riveting...saga of survival against formidable odds" (Washington Post) about one man who survived a World War II plane crash in Alaska's harsh Yukon territory Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a routine flight to test their hastily retrofitted B-24 Liberator in harsh winter conditions. The mission ended in a crash that claimed all but one-Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with no wilderness experience. With little more than a parachute for cover and an old Boy Scout knife in his pocket, Crane found himself alone in subzero temperatures. 81 Days Below Zero recounts, for the first time, the full story of Crane's remarkable twelve-week saga.The untold story of Leon Crane, the only surviving crew member of a World War II B-24 crash on a remote mountain near the Arctic Circle Zusammenfassung The untold story of Leon Crane, the only surviving crew member of a World War II B-24 crash on a remote mountain near the Arctic Circle

Product details

• Authors: Brian Murphy
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 17.03.2016
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies
• EAN: 9780306824524
• ISBN: 978-0-306-82452-4
• Pages: 264
• Series: DA CAPO PRESS
• Subjects: Survival, Alaska, Yukon, Adventure, Zweiter Weltkrieg - Periode (1939 bis 1945), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, True war & combat stories, Biografien: historisch, politisch, militärisch, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Military / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Biography / Autobiography, HISTORY / Military / United States, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Aviation & Nautical, Arctic, Air forces & warfare, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), History of the Americas, Air forces and warfare, Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), True war and combat stories, Biography: historical, political and military, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Military / Aviation & Space, plane crash, world war ii; survival; adventure; arctic; yukon; b24; plane crash; frigid, b24, frigid