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If this story of espionage and survival were a novel, readers might dismiss the Shackleton-like exploits of the hero as too fantastic to get taken seriously. But respected historian David Howarth confirmed the important points of Jan Baalsrud's riveting tale. It begins inside the spring of 1943, with Norway occupied with the Nazis along with the Allies desperate to open the northern sea lanes to Russia. Baalsrud and three compatriots want to smuggle themselves within their homeland by boat, spend summer time recruiting and training resistance fighters, and launch an unexpected attack over a German air base. But he's betrayed soon after landfall, and a quick fight leaves Baalsrud alone and trapped on the freezing island across the Arctic Circle. He's poorly clothed (one foot is entirely bare), has a head oncoming of just a few hundred yards on his Nazi pursuers, leaving a trail of blood as they crosses the snow. How he avoids capture and ultimately escapes--revealing much spoils nothing in this white-knuckle narrative--is astonishing stuff. Baalsrud's feats result in the travails in Jon Krakauer's Mt. Everest classic Into Thin Air seem like child's play. In a introduction, Stephen Ambrose calls We Die Alone an uncommon reading experience: "a book i absolutely cannot place down until I've finished it the other will find a way to never forget." This excellent book will disappoint no one. --John J. Miller
This 1955 volume is one of the most remarkable survival stories ever written. Jan Baalsrud was the one survivor of a Norwegian commando team ambushed from the Nazis during World War II. Wounded and with the Germans in pursuit, Baalsrud escaped and miraculously fought his way from the Norwegian tundra to some distant village, where he was saved by locals who helped spirit him to Sweden. Baalsrud suffered frostbite and snowblindness, came with an avalanche, and lived to share with the tale. This edition has a whole new introduction by Citizen Soldiers' author Stephen Ambrose.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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