Junger, Sebastian

Presents a vivid account of a history-making storm that hit the New England coast in October 1991 and the lives it changed, weaving together the history of the fishing industry, the science of storms, and personal accounts.

Reexamines the murder of Bessie Goldberg in the Boston suburb of Belmont in 1963--a crime for which African-American handyman Roy Smith was tried and convicted--in light of the confession two years later by Albert DeSalvo to being the notorious Boston Strangler, and the knowledge that DeSalvo was also in the neighborhood the day Goldberg died, working at the author's home.

A combat narrative based on journalist Sebastian Junger's experiences in Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008, during which he spent time intermittently embedded with a platoon of the 173rd Airborne brigade in Korengal Valley.

Uses interviews, memoirs, radio conversations, and technical research to recreate the last days of the crew of the "Andrea Gail," a fishing boat that was lost in a storm off the coast of Nova Scotia in October 1991.

Uses interviews, memoirs, radio conversations, and technical research to recreate the last days of the crew of the Andrea Gail, a fishing boat that was lost in a storm off the coast of Nova Scotia in October 1991.

The Andrea Gail put to sea to do what she always did---search for the best spot to fish. Unfortunately, nature chose the same time frame to send two storm systems which collided in the same place as the boat. The six-man crew on the Andrea Gail are now well known, thanks to the movie. None of them, or their boat, survived the storm. This book is filled with facts about their lives and ordeal and contains no made-up dialogue. The author interviewed men who had survived storms at sea to get a feeling of what actually happens to a crew when there is a dangerous storm.

A combat narrative based on journalist Sebastian Junger's experiences in Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008, during which he spent time intermittently embedded with a platoon of the 173rd Airborne brigade in Korengal Valley.

Uses interviews, memoirs, radio conversations, and technical research to recreate the last days of the crew of the Andrea Gail, a fishing boat that was lost in a storm off the coast of Nova Scotia in October 1991.

Reexamines the murder of Bessie Goldberg in the Boston suburb of Belmont in 1963--a crime for which African-American handyman Roy Smith was tried and convicted--in light of the confession two years later by Albert DeSalvo to being the notorious Boston Strangler, and the knowledge that DeSalvo was also in the neighborhood the day Goldberg died, working at the author's home.