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the author seamlessly switches his discussion from the
rescue to this broader picture.
The author makes outstanding decisions in terms of
the volume’s organization and the addition of supplemental material. These include emplacing superb maps,
inserting photographs throughout the volume, adding
a timeline, and concluding the book with an epilogue
that provides a synopsis of most of the principals’ lives
following the rescue. In total, these greatly assist in the
reader’s understanding of the rescue and in the personalization of all those involved.
Savage Will is the second volume recently released
on this rescue—which, until then, had been overlooked
by historians and a