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    Disaster at the Pole: The Tragedy of the Airship Italia and the 1928 Nobile Expedition to the North Pole
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    Disaster at the Pole: The Tragedy of the Airship Italia and the 1928 Nobile Expedition to the North Pole

    By Wilbur Cross

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    The true story of the harrowing wreck of the airship Italia during a polar expedition and the heroic rescue attempts to save her and her crew. This is an intriguing and heart-stopping account of the tragic aviation disaster of Commander Umberto Nobile, an Italian aeronautic engineer and airship designer, as he led an expedition to cross the North Pole in the dirigible airship, Italia. Nobile and Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had previously led the first successful trip across the North Pole from Europe to America in the airship Norge, beating the attempts by American explorer Admiral Richard Byrd, during history’s exciting period known as the Golden Age of Aviation. During an artic storm, the Italia suddenly crashed on an ice pack and the crew was stranded, leading to one of the world’s greatest international search and rescue efforts, involving countries such as Russia, Norway, Italy, France and Great Britain.The story is both of the tremendous efforts and heroism of the many search and rescue expeditions, including internationally famous artic explorer Roald Amundsen, who was never seen again, as well as the courage and determination of Nobile and the Italia crew as they battled the elems of the polar ice fields for survival. The ev also stirred international politics as Nobile was a well-known oppon to Mussolini’s fascist regime and Mussolini is said to have thwarted the successful rescue of Nobile and his crew.In researching this book, author Cross personally w to Italy and interviewed Umberto Nobile as well as nine other survivors from the crash. He also worked with and interviewed the officers at the Norwegian airbase from which the Italia flew on its fatal flight. Additional information came from the Dartmouth University Institute of Artic Studies, including interviews with renowned artic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansseon, who personally knew General Nobile.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilbur Cross Books
    Release dateSep 6, 2013
    ISBN9781625360823
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    Disaster at the Pole: The Tragedy of the Airship Italia and the 1928 Nobile Expedition to the North Pole
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    Wilbur Cross

    Wilbur Cross is the author or co-author of more than 50 books on a wide range of subjects, including, history, biography, culture, health, education, self-help, travel, and adventure. He received a degree from Yale University, and after overseas military service, started a writing career as a copy- writer in a New York City advertising firm, and was an editor at Time Inc for ten years, during which period he contributed to Time/Life publications. His book Choices with Clout became a best-seller and has gone into publication in six foreign countries. Another well received book is Zeppelins of World War I, published in a new edition. His dramatic work, Disaster at the Pole, the saga of the crash of the airship Italia in the Arctic in 1928, received very favorable reviews, and is published in four foreign editions. The Encyclopedia of American Submarines, which covers the entire history of U.S. Navy undersea craft since the first one in 1900, was written in conjunction with three submarine captains and the Navy’s top flag officer in this field. Cross recently published Gullah Culture in America, the stirring story of a remarkable native population in the Sea Islands of the South and its roots in West Africa, and how a long lost culture is rising from oblivion. Cross is a member of the Authors Guild and Time/Life Alumni Society. He currently has four non-fiction works in publication under the Authors Guild Backinprint imprint.

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