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Sides' book is a masterful work of history and storytelling, and it rewards patient readers with scenes of human strength and frailty they will long remember.
"Blood and Thunder" is a full-blown history, and Sides does every part of it justice... By telling this story, Sides fills a conspicuous void in the history of the American West.
Thanks to Sides's copious mining of primary and first-person sources — including memoirs, official Navy documents, and De Long's journals and private correspondence — readers get to experience at close range the Jeannette crew's trek across the melting ice, this "sorry-looking set" in ignominious retreat from a nonexistent warm-water sea.