Hell on Ice: The Saga of the Jeannette (unopened CD Rom Included)

Commander Edward Ellsberg

ISBN 10: 0971830312 / ISBN 13: 9780971830318

Published by Flat Hammock Press, Mystic, Connecticut, 2003

About this Item

This is a Special Edition of Hell on Ice published in 2003 by Flat Hammock Press. Flat Hammock Press is an independent book publisher located in Mystic, Connecticut, devoted to salvaging the maritime classics of the past. Volume itself has black covers with sharp silver lettering on the spine. An unopened CD Rom is attached to the inside of the back cover. Digitally Restored & Remastered "Hell On Ice" starring Orson Welles and Ray Collins 10-9-1938. A 333 page work that is clean, fresh, tight and bright. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality protective cover. Available for immediate shipment, carefully packed in a sturdy box!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hell on Ice: The Saga of the Jeannette (unopened CD Rom Included)
• Publisher: Flat Hammock Press, Mystic, Connecticut
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0971830312
• ISBN 13: 9780971830318
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Book by Ellsberg, Edward

About the Author

The son of Jewish immigrants, Edward Ellsberg was born in 1891 in New Haven, Connecticut, but his famliy moved to Colorado when he was a boy. He entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 1910 and graduated first in his class in 1914. After varied service on the USS Texas, he was ordered to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for postgraduate work in Naval Architecture and graduated in 1920.

In 1925 he led the salvage efforts to raise the sunken submarine USS S-51, for which he became the first sailor to earn the Distinguished Service Medal in peacetime and was promoted to Commander by a special act of Congress.

Shortly after the raising of S-51, Ellsberg entered civilian service but remained in the naval reserve. He returned to active duty briefly in December 1927 to assist with the salvage of the submarine USS S-4.

In the late 1920s Ellsberg began his long and prolific career as a writer of naval history and fiction. On the Bottom, a best-seller in 1929, was his account of the raising of the S-51. During this time Ellsberg wrote a novel about World War I submarines called Pigboats, which was later made into the movie Hell Below, and the important Hell on Ice, about the ill-fated U.S. Navy Jeannetee Expedition to the North Pole.

Ellsberg re-entered the active Navy on December 8, 1941, and his World War II accomplishments in Ethiopia, North Africa and the invasion of Normandy are considered his most valuable work. He chronicled his achievements in the books Under the Red Sea Sun; No Banners, No Bugles; and The Far Shore.

Edward Ellsberg retired from the Navy with the rank of Rear Admiral. He returned to private life as a consulting engineer and continued to write and lecture. He and his wife Lucy of sixty years divided their final years between Maine and St. Petersburg Beach, Florida. He died in 1983 at 91 and was buried in Willimanatic, Connecticut.