Alan Huffman
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Tim Hetherington (1970–2011) was one of the world's most distinguished and dedicated photojournalists, whose career was tragically cut short when he died in a mortar blast while covering the Libyan Civil War. Someone far less interested in professional glory than revealing to the world the realities of people living in extremely difficult circumstances, Hetherington nonetheless won many awards for his war reporting, and was nominated for an Academy...
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"One of the most riveting war stories I have ever read….Huffman's smooth, intimate prose ushers you through this nightmare as if you were living it yourself."
-Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm
The dramatic true story of the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history, Alan Huffman's Sultana brings to breathtaking life a tragic, long forgotten event in America's Civil War-the sinking of the steamship Sultana and the loss of 1,700 lives,...