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4.01 AVERAGE
4.01 AVERAGE
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Whilst it’s quite an interesting read and one hell of a story about the goodness of humanity in an against all the odds moment, I feel it takes its main character out of the story too much and pushes so many names on you that I forgot who was who. It’s well rounded and it finishes on a high note but for me it feels like an opportunity missed to tell a great story.
This Norwegian is cussedly determined to survive. He saws off his own gangrenous toes!
It might be a non fiction book, but it reads like a very suspenseful espionage novel. When a group of soldiers get dropped by boat in Norway and are betrayed very quickly, only 1 survives, Jan Baalsrud. Wounded he escapes the Nazi’s that try to capture them.
He escapes and stays alive thanks to all kinds of help courageous people,
Very interesting story, if you are interested in WWII, resistance, and survival. I enjoyed it, but thought it sometimes a bit long.
He escapes and stays alive thanks to all kinds of help courageous people,
Very interesting story, if you are interested in WWII, resistance, and survival. I enjoyed it, but thought it sometimes a bit long.
This read like a thriller novel but it's nonfiction. In the first scene: a boat explosion, our hero shoots a Nazi, and then manages to hide on a tiny island before swimming to another - in March in the farthest reaches of Norway. And the action and tension doesn't stop as dozens of Norwegians risk their lives to help their countryman.
If you like escape/pursuit stories, or WWII individual adventure stories, this is your next book.
If you like escape/pursuit stories, or WWII individual adventure stories, this is your next book.
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adventurous
tense
medium-paced
We Die Alone is World War II Norway's version of Lone Survivor. Written shortly after the war, it tells the story of Jan Baalsrud's unlikely survival in the far northern fjords and mountains after his commando group was wiped out while trying to infiltrate Nazi-occupied Norway. Like Marcus Latrell, Jan was stranded in a harsh environment and completely dependent on the local population to smuggle him to safety. That he eventually made it to Sweden and finally London after such extensive subzero exposure is nearly unbelievable.
I had no idea the Germans had any presence on the Northern coast of Scandinavia, but I now understand that this was the route to crucial Russian Arctic ports. I enjoyed this book because it dealt with a part of World War II which was totally new to me.
I had no idea the Germans had any presence on the Northern coast of Scandinavia, but I now understand that this was the route to crucial Russian Arctic ports. I enjoyed this book because it dealt with a part of World War II which was totally new to me.