An extremely hard book for me to rate. This is my 4th Zuckoff book , and my least favorite.
In 1942 an Army cargo plane crashed into the ice caps of Greenland. During a search and rescue, two additional planes crashed. This is the story of locating and trying to save the men caught in the brutal weather of Greenland's winter. In addition Zuckoff writes about a 2012 expedition, he was a part of, that went searching for one of those planes and the 3 Americans that died there. The stories alternate, as all duel story line books, chapter to chapter. The 1943 story held me captive. There were moments I cried for the men caught up in this disaster. I hated moving onto the current day story. That piece of it dragged for me, and I really disliked some of the people involved. Which of course is not the authors fault. I love Zuckoff's story telling, I just had issues with that piece of it especially (view spoiler)[ when there really was no closure to it (hide spoiler)]
As I said, a hard one to rate. I am going to up it on GR's to 4 stars, but if I could stick with 3 1/2 I would.
An extremely hard book for me to rate. This is my 4th Zuckoff book , and my least favorite.
In 1942 an Army cargo plane crashed into the ice caps of Greenland. During a search and rescue, two additional planes crashed. This is the story of locating and trying to save the men caught in the brutal weather of Greenland's winter. In addition Zuckoff writes about a 2012 expedition, he was a part of, that went searching for one of those planes and the 3 Americans that died there. The stories alternate, as all duel story line books, chapter to chapter. The 1943 story held me captive. There were moments I cried for the men caught up in this disaster. I hated moving onto the current day story. That piece of it dragged for me, and I really disliked some of the people involved. Which of course is not the authors fault. I love Zuckoff's story telling, I just had issues with that piece of it especially (view spoiler)[ when there really was no closure to it (hide spoiler)]
As I said, a hard one to rate. I am going to up it on GR's to 4 stars, but if I could stick with 3 1/2 I would.