OMMUNISTS TO RESCUE FASCISTS, 1928: 1/4: N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia, by Mark Piesing @PorterSqBooks.
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🗓️ 20 January 2024
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https://www.amazon.com/N-4-Down-Arctic-Airship-Italia/dp/0062851527
Triumphantly returning from the North Pole on May 24, 1928, the world-famous exploring airship Italia—code-named N-4—was struck by a terrible storm and crashed somewhere over the Arctic ice, triggering the largest polar rescue mission in history. Helping lead the search was the famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the poles’ greatest explorer, who himself soon went missing in the frozen wastes. Amundsen’s body has never been found, the last victim of one of the Arctic’s most enduring mysteries . . .
During the Roaring Twenties, zeppelin travel embodied the exuberant spirit of the age. Germany’s luxurious Graf Zeppelin would run passenger service from Germany to Brazil; Britain’s Imperial Airship was launched to connect an empire; in America, the iconic spire of the rising Empire State Building was designed as a docking tower for airships.
1913 MUSSOLINI
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| 0:45.0 | I welcome Mark Pising, author of N4 Down. |
| 0:49.0 | This is the story of the early part of the 20th century and the search for achievement, adventure, |
| 0:57.0 | and conquest of the North Pole. |
| 1:00.7 | The subtitle, The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia. |
| 1:04.0 | Mark, congratulations. |
| 1:06.0 | Good evening. |
| 1:07.0 | We go immediately to an exciting scene in your book. |
| 1:10.0 | July 25, 1925, we're in Norway at a house, an alpine-like house in an part of Norway that |
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