TY  - BOOK
AU  - Piesing,Mark
TI  - N-4 down: the hunt for the Arctic airship Italia 
SN  - 9780062851529
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Custom House
KW  - Nobile, Umberto,
KW  - Amundsen, Roald,
KW  - Italia (Airship)
KW  - Explorers
KW  - Aviation disasters
KW  - Airships
KW  - Accidents
KW  - Arctic regions
KW  - Search and rescue operations
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Survival at sea
KW  - Fascism
KW  - Discovery and exploration
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-410) and index; Introduction: Once upon a time in the North -- Prologue: The Arctic Ocean, May 25, 1928 -- "You are supposed to be dead" -- "There is no room for Prima Donnas in the Italian Air Force" -- "Do you know where Amundsen is?" -- "She would be there to inform on us" -- "The most sensational sporting event in human history" -- "Let him go, for he cannot possibly come back to bother us anymore" -- "We are quite aware that our venture is difficult and dangerous . . . but it is this very difficulty and danger which attracts us" -- "God Save Us!" -- "We will die when God has decided" -- "Do you as you like, but I am going looking for Nobile" -- "Woman joins search for Amundsen" -- "Don't let him eat me!" -- "Down with Nobile! Death to Nobile!" -- "This is real exploring despite the luxury" -- Epilogue: The Kremlin, Moscow, 1933
N2  - "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"--
ER  -