Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol.(Book review)

From: Arctic | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: Barr, William | Copyright information

LIFE AND DEATH ON THE GREENLAND PATROL, 1942. By THADDEUS D. NOVAK. Edited by P.J. CAPELOTTI. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. ISBN 0-8130-2912-0, 206 p., maps, b & w illus., notes, maps, index, bib. Hardbound. US$59.95.

In May 1940 Eske Brun, the Danish Governor of Greenland, requested protection from the United States against Germany. Anxious to safeguard its supply of cryolite (essential for the manufacture of aluminum) from the mine at Ivigtut, the Uni...

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