PDF Fighting for Hope: African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America (War/Society/Culture) by Robert F. Jefferson in History

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In the nineteenth century; theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Was it an open sea? Was it a portal to new worlds within the globe? Or was it just a wilderness of ice? When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1845; explorers decided it was time to find out. In scintillating detail; Ninety Degrees North tells of the vying governments (including the United States; Britain; Germany; and Austria-Hungary) and fantastic eccentrics (from Swedish balloonists to Italian aristocrats) who; despite their heroic failures; often achieved massive celebrity as they battled shipwreck; starvation; and sickness to reach the top of the world. Drawing on unpublished archives and long-forgotten journals; Fleming tells this story with consummate craftsmanship and wit. Ninety Degrees North is a riveting saga of humankind's search for the ultimate goal.