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Program. Hello, andkowski welcome. My name is christopher kolakowski. It is my honor to be the director here. We are a museum, and research center, dedicated to the life and times of general Douglas Macarthur. We will look at some of the treasures in our collection from world war ii, the occupation of japan to the end of his life. With that, let us take a look at our first item. Douglas macarthur in 1935 was offered the job of military advisor of the commonwealth of the philippines. They were on...

Drawing on firsthand accounts, David Grann presents a suspenseful story of shipwreck, anarchy and survival. Set in 1740, Grann’s nonfiction book, “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder,” immerses readers in the wrath of the sea and the power of a historical narrative. Grann uses archival documents — logbooks, journals, diaries and more...

Just when you think you’ve already heard the most daring of castaway sea voyages from the historical record, author David Grann comes to regale us with a remarkable chronicle of

From an Elon Musk biography and Prince Harry’s Spare to Yellow Face and Hong Kong poetry, Post Magazine’s round-up of 2023’s best books takes as its theme the Cambridge Dictionary word of the year, hallucinate.

From Prince Harry’s epic memoir to Britney Spears’s chilling autobiography, David Grann’s historical novel The Wager to Rebecca Yarros’ fantasy fiction Fourth Wing, here is Livemint’s pick of the top five best sellers of 2023.

David Grann's latest book The Wager, A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder tells the story of the disastrous voyage of the 28-gun frigate The Wager across the Atlantic and round Cape Horn as part of a Royal Navy flotilla to attack Spanish shipping in the Pacific during the War of Jenkin's Ear. It is a dramatic change from his previous book Killers of the Flower Moon, set in the rolling hills and open prairie of Osage County that runs north from Tulsa, Oklahoma and dealing with the mur...

From the first sentence, Each man in the squadron carried, along with a sea chest, his own burdensome story, to the last, Nothing else remains of the ferocious

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David Grann’s latest book recounts an 18th century shipwreck and the life and death struggles of its survivors.

To write The Wager, David Grann sifted through 280-year-old documents to sort fact from fake news.