In his latest book Robert de la Croix describes the thrilling conquest of the Antarctic, and tells the story of the men who made it possible. That conquest is not yet completed, but its upshot is certain.... thanks to the few who opened up a vast continent which had remained terra incognita even to the bravest until the nineteenth century. Few they were, amazingly few, but their courage, endurance and self-sacrifice were enormous. Dumont d'Urville and Charcot, the Frenchman; Ross, Shackleton and Scott, the British; Gerlache, the Belgium; Amundsen, the Norwegian; Mawson, the Australian- these were the pioneers, the men who blazed the trail, the men who reached the Pole during the heroic era of Antarctic exploration. After them came the American Byrd with his ''Operation High Jump'', organised on a mass scale like a war-time drive against the enemy, and then the scientific, geological and geographical expeditions of our own day. This story of men against the ice contains enough high ad