{"product_id":"9781894463706","title":"The Banting Enigma","description":"\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Brown; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e1941. Wartime Newfoundland.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Brown; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Brown; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Brown; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003eKeeping vigil on the easternmost point of North America, and providing a strategic haven to battle-ready U.S. troops during World War II, the island colony of Newfoundland was an essential contributor to the Allied cause. And, when the war was at its fiercest, this Atlantic sentinel would receive devastating body blows from a hidden, elusive enemy. Two key players bore witness to the ensuing drama.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Brown; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Brown; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Brown; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003eSir Frederick Banting: soldier, scientist, Nobel Prize winner. The enigmatic co-discoverer of insulin and his views on biological warfare would give rise to heated and long-lived controversy. Little did Major Banting know, word of his actions had reached the ears of the Führer himself, who determined the Canadian soldier-scientist would not live to see his goal of using biological weapons against Germany fulfilled.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Brown; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Brown; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Brown; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003eKarl Otto Stroesser: saboteur, spy, murderer. Receiving orders directly from the upper echelons of Adolf Hitler's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbwehr\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esyndicate, he is the instrument of Nazi Germany's private war waged upon Newfoundland. It is through the actions of this cunning, relentless killer that the island colony would witness some of the greatest tragedies ever to unfold in its history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Brown; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Brown; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Brown; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003eSteeped in political intrigue, power struggles, and espionage,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Banting Enigma\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003elooks behind the scenes at Newfoundland's role in World War II—and its deadly repercussions.\u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William R. 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