He went on to earn an MA in history from the University of Oregon and a PhD in U.S.
He emigrated with his family to Vancouver, British Columbia as a youth and before entering Simon Fraser University. Biography įredrik Logevall was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1963, and grew up in Västerås. Logevall’s essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, Daily Beast, and Foreign Affairs, among other publications. His most recent book, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 (2020), won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam.
Logevall was previously the Stephen and Madeline Anbinder Professor of History at Cornell University, where he also served as vice provost and as director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Kennedy School of Government and professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. If she is to survive and save her crew, Trouble Dog is going to have to remember how to fight.Fredrik Logevall is a Swedish-American historian and educator at Harvard University, where he is the Laurence D. Quickly, what appears to be a straightforward rescue mission turns into something far more dangerous, as Trouble Dog, Konstanz and Childe, find themselves at the centre of a potential new conflict that could engulf not just mankind but the entire galaxy. What Childe doesn’t know is that Sudak is not the person she appears to be. In order to do this, he must reach out to the only person he considers a friend, even if he s not sure she can be trusted. Meanwhile, light years away, intelligence officer Ashton Childe is tasked with locating and saving the poet, Ona Sudak, who was aboard the missing ship, whatever the cost. When a ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of misfits and loners, captained by Sal Konstanz, an ex-captain of a medical frigate who once fought against Trouble Dog, are assigned to investigate and save whoever they can.
But, stripped of her weaponry and emptied of her officers, she struggles in the new role she’s chosen for herself. Seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organisation dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. The warship Trouble Dog was built and bred for calculating violence, yet following a brutal war, she finds herself disgusted by conflict and her role in a possible war crime. Winner of the 2018 BSFA Award for Best Novel!įinalist for the 2018 Locus Award for Best SF Novel!
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