We Die Alone (The Story of Norwegian Commando Jan Baalstrud - 1943) PDF
Preview We Die Alone (The Story of Norwegian Commando Jan Baalstrud - 1943)
A World War Two epic of escape and endurance
In March 1943 a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from the Shetland Islands - the most northerly part of Scotland - for Nazi-occupied Norway. Their mission was to organise and support the Norwegian resistance. They were betrayed, and only one man survived the ambush by the Nazis. Crippled by frostbite and snow-blind, hunted by the Nazis, Jan Baalstrud managed to find a tiny Arctic village. There - delirious, near death - he found villagers willing to risk their own lives to save him.
David Howarth narrates his incredible escape in this gripping tale of courage and the resilience of the human spirit. During World War II David Howarth ran a spy ring from which both this volume and his previous best-seller - The Shetland Bus (1951) - derive.
Mr Howarth, who died in 1991, was the author of two dozen major books on history.
Originally Published 1958 & Reissued in 2010 (this version).
This story was made into a Norwegian Financed Film called 'The Twelfth Man' in 2017.
Jan Baalstrud survived the war and returned to Norway, he passed in 1988.
Additionally recommend reading the more recently published Defiant Courage by By Astrid Karlsen Scott and Dr. Tore Haug (2014) for a much more detailed and upto date version of this story of human endurance and survival.
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