Description
North to Alaska! Fifty Years on the World’s Most Remarkable Highway tells the story of the Alaska Highway, pushed through 1,500 miles of dense bush, mountain ranges and raging rivers in only eight months. The book commemorates the 50th anniversary of the completion of the highway, built by 30,000 military personnel and civilians in 1942, to link Dawson Creek in Canada with Fairbanks over which supplies could be moved to the far north military outposts during World War II. The highway is an engineering project unmatched in the 20th century.
