Rating: 
Summary: the great escape
Review: 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:
Summary: a classic survival tale
Review: The excellent Common Reader catalogue has been recommending this book forever in their catalogue and I can see why -- once you start, you can't put it down. Much like the other great survival tale, The Long Walk (which was probably even a notch above this one for sheer duration of suffering over multiple terrains with even worse odds of survival), this book follows the inredible suffering of a Norwegian hero who set sail from England on a Nazi raid in the northernmost regions of Norway. As usual, the Norwegians come out looking like real heroes -- just as they resisted Nazi occupation and didn't lie down to the treat of Hitler, so too many ordinary Norwegians risked their own lives and those of their families to save the young protagonist from sure death. A terrific read from start to finish!
Rating: 
Summary: Incredible
Review: This amazing memoir will change the way you see, and appreciate life. An almost unbelievable story of human endurance, this has got to be the ultimate survival story. If a better one exists, I have yet to read it.The book chronicles the story of an American citizen of Norwegian descent, who joins the WWII effort via the English, on a secret mission to sabotage the Nazis in Norway. Their plan fails and they are discovered by the Nazis, and one of them, "Jan", escapes into the frigid Norwegian hinterlands. What follows is an incredible journey as Jan seeks the assistance of Norwegian locals who risk everything, under pain of death, to help him escape to Sweden. Since all roads and waterways are patrolled by the Nazis the only recourse is overland through the frozen deserts of the Norwegian highlands. Incredibly, Jan survives many weeks alone without food or shelter in the blizzards of the Norwegian Arctic. The author makes the case of how much we take for granted in our daily comforts. An inspirational story.
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