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Title: We Die Alone: WWII Epic of Escapes and Endurance by David Howarth ISBN: 1558219730 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.59
Rating: 4
Summary: Incredible true WWII survival tale, rippingly told.
Comment: One winter, in the midst of WWII, a crew of expatriate Norwegians attempted to land a cargo of guerilla supplies on Nazi-occupied Norway's far-northern coast. This book tells the story of the incredible privation endured by one of those men, Jan Balsruud, his hardihood and survival, and the risks and sacrifices undertaken on his behalf by the men and women who help him evade capture.
I first read _We_Die_Alone_ some thirty years ago, in the first paperback edition, and I know that certain of its scenes and events will stay with me so long as I live. Howarth recounts the story simply, and lets the facts provide the drama.
Strongly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: the great escape
Comment: the book "WE DIE ALONE" was the best I had read during the late 50's. it was for a book report during my high school career. during that period in my life social events were mor fun than reading. but I had a difficut time putting this book down, so i could get some sleep. the book that I read was the first published edition, copyrighted 1955 by Ace books. my book has a map of the area, something the newer ones don't have. one of the reviewers down graded this story because his book did not supply him with a map. the story, four men survive the demolition of a boat they were on when it was destroyed by the Germans. one of them getting help from local citizens, travels up and over the mountains, gets caught in a sever snow storm. he places himself next to a huge rock and is buried alive but keeps pushing the snow away. then during the next many days he survives an incredible amount of pain and suffering. a true story.
Rating: 4
Summary: Physical and Emotional Endurance in WWII
Comment: Second only to Slavomir Rawicz's The Long Walk in the annals of WWII escape stories I've read, the story of Jan Baalsrud's amazing escape after a failed commando insertion into occupied Norway is more a tale of endurance than one of derring-do. Penned by a former British spymaster, the book is a clear, if somewhat simply written, account of how Baalsrud was sheltered for weeks by various patriotic Norwegians who did their best to keep him out of German hands.
An expatriate Norwegian, Baalsrud and his fellow commandos were attempting to establish a resistance cell in northern Norway that would disrupt the operations of a major German airfield nearby. Betrayed, the commandos were ambushed by German soldiers, with only Baalsrud escaping. The bulk of the book described how over the next several weeks, regular citizens in remote villages attempted to keep him alive while arranging for him to get to Sweden. This was greatly hampered by the frostbite that made walking or skiing impossible for him. It's an excellent glimpse into the mundane details of how regular people did their best to resist the Germans with the knowledge that they and their families would be killed if their plotting was uncovered.
Ultimately though, the book is a tribute to Baalsrud's incredible physical and emotional endurance-he was buried alive for days under snow, left by himself for days at a time unable to move and in excruciating pain, and had to contemplate self-surgery-all while knowing that his discovery could mean the deaths of many innocent people. Think you're tough? Read this and think again! It would have been nice if the publisher had included a map.
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Title: The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz ISBN: 1558216847 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard ISBN: 0786704373 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls : True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors by Edward E. Leslie ISBN: 0395911508 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 15 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Touching the Void : The Harrowing First-Person Account of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson ISBN: 0060916540 Publisher: HarperCollins (paper) Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Sledge Patrol : A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Victory by David Howarth ISBN: 1585742899 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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