Henderson, Bruce

Examines the feud between explorers Frederick Cook and Robert Peary, both of whom claimed to be the first to reach the North Pole in the early twentieth-century, looks at Peary's attempts to discredit Cook who responded by going into seclusion, and attempts to discover which man's story is true.

Tells the true story of Navy pilot Dieter Dengler who led and organized an escape from a P.O.W. camp in the Laotian jungle and returned to his aircraft carrier, emaciated and ill, six months after being shot down.