We die alone

David howarth

Published by We die alone, hardcover with dustjacket, illustrated
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This amazing true story stands alone in the annals of World War II as a record of unbelievable hardship, blood-chilling excitement and super-human courage.

In the winter of 1943, twelve Nor­wegian saboteurs sailed for their native land in a fishing boat haal with bid­den armatnent. Their orders were destroy the great German airlield near the Arctic Ocean. They had hardly touched shore when the Nazis, alerted by a Quisling, attacked and killed or tapuit-cd all but one of the party. Jan Baalsrud alone escaped — swimming to a tiny, frozen island, hunted like a beast by fifty of the enemy. His only hope was to reach Sweeden — eighty miles away.

What happened to Jan in the next two months is the story of a man who would not die — although his body was cracked by cold, although he was crippled, starved, delirious, blinded by snow, and lost in uncharted moun­tains. We Die Alone is a story which no one could believe if the tentral figure had not survived to prove it true, to­gether with scores of witnesses who took part in his dramatic escape. It is a story of desperate violence, but it is also an account of warm friendship, charity, and sacrifice, and of one man's undying faith and triumphant spirit.