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How a mystery writer explained the way war profoundly shaped Alaska

Brian Garfield, who died last month, captured the significance of war in Alaska in “The Thousand Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians” as few others could.

By Dermot Cole January 14, 2019
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Every obituary about Brian Garfield made prominent mention — and rightly so — of a single book among the 70 or so he wrote during the decades he spent at the writer’s trade.

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