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"GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." — Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928. 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 larg