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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Death in the Baltic The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff by Cathryn J. Prince Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff by Cathryn J. Prince. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 660f4ad4ed6edfc3 • Your IP : 116.202.236.252 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff by Cathryn J. Prince. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 660f4ad5bb504edf • Your IP : 116.202.236.252 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Cathryn J. Prince. "In Queen of the Mountaineers, Cathryn J. Prince transports readers to an era when explorers traversed continents by yak and goatskin boat, when mountains were still unmapped and unmeasured, when climbers braved the elements with rudimentary gear, and when the hard-earned, high- altitude triumphs of those like Fanny Bullock Workman were presented with the caveat the climber was a woman." —Carolyn Porter, author of Marcel's Letters. "Cathryn J. Prince presents legendary adventurer and climber Fanny Bullock Workman, a fascinating champion for women's rights who resisted expectation and refused to conform to gender roles. Through Fanny's fascinating story, Prince beautifully archives the heights achieved by our foremothers." —Ruta Sepetys, author of Between Shades of Gray and Salt to the Sea. "This very well researched and written biography brings Fanny's trail-blazing accomplishments to a new generation of climbers—both women and men—as well as to armchair mountaineers." —Arlene Blum, author of Annapurna: A Woman's Place and Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life. "Cathryn J. Prince digs into original journals, manuscripts, and photos to reveal a woman whose ambitions broke boundaries for mountaineers in general and women climbers in particular." —Elizabeth Rynecki, author and documentary film director of Chasing Portraits. "[This] engaging and rigorously reported account of Fanny Bullock Workman's impressive life invites the reader to follow this brave and restless woman up the world's tallest mountains, both geological and cultural. What a read!" —Ben Montgomery, author of Grandma Gatewood's Walk and The Leper Spy. Cathryn J. Prince. I'm pleased to announce my new book "QUEEN OF THE MOUNTAINEERS: The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman" will be released May 7, 2019 by Chicago Review Press. Fanny Bullock Workman was a complicated and restless woman who defied the rigid Victorian morals she found as restrictive as a corset. Instrumental in breaking the British stranglehold on Himalayan mountain climbing, she negotiated the male-dominated world of alpine clubs and adventure societies as nimbly as she negotiated the deep crevasses and icy granite walls of the Himalayas. It's the story of the role one woman played in science and exploration, in breaking boundaries and frontiers for women everywhere. "In Queen of the Mountaineers, Cathryn J. Prince transports readers to an era when explorers traversed continents by yak and goatskin boat, when mountains were still unmapped and unmeasured, when climbers braved the elements with rudimentary gear, and when the hard-earned, high- altitude triumphs of those like Fanny Bullock Workman were presented with the caveat the climber was a woman." —Carolyn Porter, author of Marcel's Letters. "Cathryn J. Prince presents legendary adventurer and climber Fanny Bullock Workman, a fascinating champion for women's rights who resisted expectation and refused to conform to gender roles. Through Fanny's fascinating story, Prince beautifully archives the heights achieved by our foremothers." —Ruta Sepetys, author of Between Shades of Gray and Salt to the Sea. "This very well researched and written biography brings Fanny's trail-blazing accomplishments to a new generation of climbers—both women and men—as well as to armchair mountaineers." —Arlene Blum, author of Annapurna: A Woman's Place and Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life. "Cathryn J. Prince digs into original journals, manuscripts, and photos to reveal a woman whose ambitions broke boundaries for mountaineers in general and women climbers in particular." —Elizabeth Rynecki, author and documentary film director of Chasing Portraits. "[This] engaging and rigorously reported account of Fanny Bullock Workman's impressive life invites the reader to follow this brave and restless woman up the world's tallest mountains, both geological and cultural. What a read!" —Ben Montgomery, author of Grandma Gatewood's Walk and The Leper Spy. Hardcover 320 pages * ISBN-10: 1613739559. American Daredevil: The Extraordinary Life of Richard Halliburton, the World's First Celebrity Travel Writer. With a polished walking stick and neatly pressed trousers, Richard Halliburton served as an intrepid globetrotting guide for millions of Americans in the 1920s and ’30s. Readers waited with bated breath for each new article and book he wrote. During his career, Halliburton climbed the Matterhorn, nearly fell out of his plane while shooting the first aerial photographs of Mt. Everest, and became the first person to swim the Panama Canal. With his matinee idol looks, the Tennessee native was a media darling in an era of optimism and increased social openness. But as the Great Depression and looming war pushed America toward social conservatism, Halliburton more actively worked to hide his homosexuality, burnishing his image as a masculine trailblazer. As chronicled in American Daredevil, Halliburton harnessed the media of his day to gain and maintain a widespread following long before our age of the 24-hour news cycle, and thus became the first celebrity adventure journalist. And during the darkest hours of the Great Depression, Halliburton did something remarkable: he inspired generations of authors, journalists, and everyday people who dreamt of fame and glory to explore the world. REVIEWS "Separating the escapades from the exaggerations in the life of one of the best adventurers of his age. A rollicking tale of the incredible saga of a man constantly searching for the next exploit and sharing them in his writings." –Kirkus Reviews. “Cathryn Prince has written a compelling, well researched account of an inspiring and largely overlooked life, a man who traversed the globe and wrote about all he saw with romance and flair. A sweet look back at a more innocent time, when the world called out to curious young men like Richard Halliburton.” —Neal Thompson, author of A Curious Man: The Strange & Brilliant Life of Robert “Believe It or Not!” Ripley. “Between the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression, the writer-adventurer Richard Halliburton taught America to love the world without revealing his own heart. Prince’s sensitive and unstinting portrait bottles his lightning and captures his tragedy.” —Christopher Heaney, author of Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu. Death in the Baltic: The WWII Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. Winner of the 2013 Military Writers Society of America Founder's Award. The worst maritime disaster ever occurred during World War II. January 1945: The outcome of World War II has been determined. The Third Reich is in free fall as the Russians close in from the east. Berlin plans an eleventh-hour exodus for the German civilians trapped in the Red Army’s way. More than 10,000 women, children, sick, and elderly pack aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, a former cruise ship. Soon after the ship leaves port and the passengers sigh in relief, three Soviet torpedoes strike it, inflicting catastrophic damage and throwing passengers into the frozen waters of the Baltic. More than 9,400 perished in the night—six times the number lost on the Titanic. Yet as the Cold War started no one wanted to acknowledge the sinking. Drawing on interviews with survivors, as well as the letters and diaries of those who perished, award-wining author Cathryn Prince reconstructs this forgotten moment in history. She weaves these personal narratives into a broader story, finally giving this WWII tragedy its rightful remembrance. REVIEWS “In describing the experiences of survivors, whom she has been adept in tracing, the journalist Cathryn Prince gives voices to ‘ordinary people who suffered during extraordinary times' -- and does so with scrupulous empathy.” The Spectator. “The story of the worst maritime disaster in history…Prince has scoured the planet for survivors, treating their harrowing stories with gentle empathy, from the first sickening bolts of the torpedoes to the chaos and terror of the ship's swift sinking as passengers fell into the freezing water, clambered for lifeboats and watched loved ones disappear in the tumult… An engaging study of a shocking tragedy.” Kirkus Reviews.