Summary of Mitchell Zuckoff's Frozen in Time

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#1 Greenland’s name is often blamed on a Viking named Erik the Red, who exiled himself from nearby Iceland in the year 982 after he killed two men in a neighborhood dispute. He named his discovery Greenland in the belief that a good name would encourage his countrymen to settle there with him. But the ploy didn’t work.

#2 Greenland is the world’s loneliest place. It has the lowest population density of any country or dependent territory. It is three times the size of France, and it occupies more than twice the area of the second-largest island, New Guinea.

#3 For centuries, Greenland was largely ignored by the world. But in the 20th century, it was seen as a potential Nazi staging ground and springboard for a blitzkrieg, or lightning war, with a ground invasion of the United States and Canada.

#4 Allied planners feared that Germany would establish weather stations in Greenland that could be used to guide Luftwaffe bombing runs over Great Britain and the Continent.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822510470

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Insights on Mitchell Zuckoff's Frozen in Time

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 23

Insights from Chapter 24

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Greenland’s name is often blamed on a Viking named Erik the Red, who exiled himself from nearby Iceland in the year 982 after he killed two men in a neighborhood dispute. He named his discovery Greenland in the belief that a good name would encourage his countrymen to settle there with him. But the ploy didn’t work.

#2

Greenland is the world’s loneliest place. It has the lowest population density of any country or dependent territory. It is three times the size of France, and it occupies more than twice the area of the second-largest island, New Guinea.

#3

For centuries, Greenland was largely ignored by the world. But in the 20th century, it was seen as a potential Nazi staging ground and springboard for a blitzkrieg, or lightning war, with a ground invasion of the United States and Canada.

#4

Allied planners feared that Germany would establish weather stations in Greenland that could be used to guide Luftwaffe bombing runs over Great Britain and the Continent.

#5

By 1941, the United States had assembled a small fleet of Coast Guard ships and converted fishing trawlers into what it called the Greenland Patrol. They were there to help the U. S. Army establish bases for ferrying planes to Britain and defend Greenland against German operations.

#6

The United States began a massive buildup of the U. S. Eighth Air Force in Britain in 1942. The military began Operation Bolero, in which warplanes flew the Snowball Route to Britain, hopscotching from Maine to Newfoundland to Greenland to Iceland to Scotland.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

On November 5, 1942, a pudgy twin-engine plane called a C-53 Skytrooper took flight from an American air base in Reykjavik, Iceland. Five American airmen were aboard,