Hjältemod, uthållighet & överlevnad

A teenage boy lies on the pavement, bleeding from a stab wound; a distraught mum watches, in mute shock, as her daughter suffers a terrifying fatal asthma attack; a young girl is …

In the early hours of the morning of June 3rd 1949, General Harold Alexander was alongside the quay at Dunkirk as he lifted a megaphone and called "Is anyone there? Is anyone …

As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and …

Tositarina suomalaisnaisen kaappauksesta.Nuori suomalaisnainen kaapataan ulkomailla ja hänen vapautensa riistetään. Monien toivottomien, väkivallan täyttämien kuukausien jälkeen …

Bestselling author Bear Grylls has survived a free-fall parachute accident that left him with a broken back, possibly unable to walk again; falling down a mountain in the Rockies, …

The extraordinary - and never before told - story of Alastair Cram, the British soldier who escaped from prisoner-of-war camps not once but more than twenty times

“A thoroughly engaging glimpse into a colorful life well lived.” –Kirkus Reviews“A bighearted new memoir . . . Uptown Girl tells the story of a glamorous, resilient, and beloved …

December 1943. A German fort sits impregnable atop a mountain. Standing between the Allied forces and their path to Rome is a steep climb up a 200-foot cliff, in the snow, in the …

Bear Grylls is no stranger to extremes. During a three-year stint in the SAS he was involved in a horrific parachuting accident in Africa and broke his back in three places. Months …

Enfance ou folie? Cette collection d'histoires commence avec un jeune gar on dont l'intelligence, la capacit et la d termination sont plus en accord avec un adulte plut t qu'avec …