Paul Kupperberg

The Alaska Highway

Buch

In early 1942, the first of more than 18,000 U.S. military and civilian workers and countless tons of equipment were shipped across Canada and Alaska to one of the most inhospitable regions in the world. Their mission: to build a 1,500-mile-long highway through the Canadian and Alaskan wildernesses to link remote Fairbanks, Alaska, with the existing U.S. Highway System. Started three months after the devastating Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a good highway was needed to access Americas northernmost territory should Alaska require extra defense in the event of a Japanese attack via the Aleutian Islands. Work crews had a mere eight months to… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-60413-074-4
EAN: 9781604130744
Produktnummer: 4274473
Verlag: Chelsea House Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 144 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B16.5 cm 363 g
Abbildungen: full-colour & black-&-white photographs & illustrations, maps, primary source documents, chronology & timeline, glossary, bibliography, further resources, index
Gewicht: 363
Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor

Paul Kupperberg is a writer and editor of more than a dozen books of nonfiction on topics including history, popular culture, science, and medicine. He has been an editor at numerous national publications, including a weekly newspaper and a kids' magazine. He lives in Connecticut.