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Book Review of The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic

The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
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Taken from the back of the book. " When a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die."
This is the story about how the antitoxin was delivered across the Alaskan wilderness to Nome. What a fascinating account of this sad yet inspiring story. I have only one issue, it started and stoped a couple story lines and then restarted it in another part of the book, found that to be very annoying.