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A front row seat to the breaking news, photos and hype surrounding history's most mysterious disappearances. Breaking History books offer a front row seat to history as it broke (like "breaking news") and give the blow-by-blow of historical discovery - what we learned, when we learned it, who made the discovery, and how. Vanished! is an illustrated tour of history's most confounding cases of disappearance from Amelia Earhart to Jimmy Hoffa; DB Cooper; Alcatraz escapists Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Algin; Jim Thompson; Judge Joseph Force Crater; and more. Starting with the first 30 days surrounding each incident, and then looking at efforts up to this very day to solve each case, this book covers in photos and text history's most perplexing vanishings.



About the Author

Sarah Pruitt

When Sarah Pruitt was growing up in Exeter, New Hampshire, her parents gave her a photobiography of Abraham Lincoln (by Russell Freedman) that sparked her enduring love of both history and the 16th U.S. president. Since 2005, she has been a regular contributor to History.com, the website for the History Channel, writing content for popular features like This Day in History, Ask History, and the Civil War 150 Interactive exhibit. She has also contributed more than 200 posts to the History Stories blog, which explores the history behind today's breaking news stories. She's currently at work on a novel set in Washington D.C., in the last months of the Civil War.



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