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by William Dietrich (Author) "The flying was bad ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover
  • Publisher: Twtp Assorted (April 2001)
  • ISBN-10: 0759502625
  • ISBN-13: 978-0759502628
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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A fictional story inspired by facts
"Ice Reich" is a World War II thriller inspired by a true incident. In 1938-39, Germany's Hermann Goering sent an expedition on the seaplane tender Schwabenland to claim part of the southern continent. The Nazis dropped swastika-tipped darts from airplanes to mark their presence and greeted curious penguins with a "Heil Hitler." While the story of "Ice Reich" is fiction, many of its seemingly unlikely details are based on fact: Goering did have a gigantic model train set bombed by model airplanes, for example, and the most important drug of the war, penicillin, did come from unlikely molds. The strain developed by the United States in mass quantities came from a decaying cantaloupe found by a researcher in a garbage bin in Peoria, Illinois.

The first draft of this book was written in Antarctica on the U.S. research ship Polar Duke and its atmosphere was dictated by that extraordinarily hostile and beautiful place: the coldest, windiest, highest (because of snow accumulations more than two miles thick) and, surprisingly, driest of the continents. Antarctica is a desert where what moisture does fall never melts.

While the intent was always to tell a gripping and romantic yarn, the book was carefully researched to reflect the technology, politics, society and even jokes of the Nazi era. I hope readers enjoy both its imagination and authenticity. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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3.0 out of 5 stars fun but shallow, 23 May 1999
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Dietrich paints an absorbing portrait of Antarctica, but his plot, while interesting and page-turnable, was not at all realistic. Not to spoil the yarn for future readers, but the hero, owen hart, was not believable, considering what he did as an intelligence officer in 1944. Totally insane, as well as deserving of other adjectives. The ending just doesn't ring true, either. This is a popcorn book -- fun to read, but hardly nutritious.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good adventure story if a bit farfetched., 17 Feb 1999
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Interesting tale of an American arctic pilot who gets entangled in a prewar Nazi Antarctic expedition with goes badly. No great brainwork involved but an entertaining story, despite moments of tediousness.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining if Not Taken Too Seriously, 2 Jun 2008
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William Dietrich was born in 1951 and grew up in Tacoma, WA. A journalism graduate of Western Washington University, he has spent most of his life in the Pacific Northwest, with briefer sojourns in Washington, D.C., and Boston. He has won numerous journalism awards. He is married, has two college-age daughters, and lives in Anacortes, WA.

I could not make my mind up about this book. Firstly because the author is a serious journalist and because of that are we to take the content of the book seriously or because it is a work of fiction just treat it as a piece of entertainment, which it certainly is. On the other hand we are told that a number of the events written about in the book actually took place and there is a well known saying that fact is stranger than fiction. Personally I found it difficult to separate fact and fantasy and in the end gave up trying to do so and started to enjoy the book much more because of this attitude.

Books on World War II, or any other modern conflict for that matter are not the first ones I take from the book shelf but having said that this book is an entertaining thriller and if you like the books of James Rollins or Steve Berry then there is no reason why you should not enjoy this one too.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very Entertaining WWII type fiction
A captivating WWII fiction book that plays through till about 2/3 of the way through. At this point, the author decides to omit the war years and then continue the story which... Read more
Published on 16 Jan 1999

1.0 out of 5 stars Predictable, thin, weak- like prime-time TV.
I was amazed at the shallowness of this story.
Published on 15 Jan 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Ice Reich is a smart page turner
Ice Reich has a clever plot, well-developed characters, and plenty of action. A thriller with some history and nature thrown in, it should find a wide audience. Read more
Published on 3 Dec 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Ice Reich is worth saluting.
Ice Reich is the best Antarctic thriller since Payne Harrison's Thunder of Erebus. A former science reporter for the Seattle Times, author William Dietrich is particularly adept... Read more
Published on 24 Nov 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!!
If you like Clive Clussler you will love this book! William Dietrich weaves a great tale of adventure and yes, even love. Read more
Published on 13 Nov 1998

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