Survival Stories

I know it's been a while since I posted anything. Honestly I haven't read anything worth posting. Until now! Dun dun dun.
We Die Alone by David Howarth. How many times can a personal almost die? This book is for anyone who loves adventure novels, military/war novels, or survival stories (especially arctic). Taking place in Norway at the time of Germany’s occupation in WWII, Jan is a Norwegian who arrives from England with a group of other military Norwegians attempting to gather information and sabotage German operations. Very quickly into the mission he is the last one left and being hunted. I was amazed at what a person can survive and I’ve read a lot of survival stories. Frostbite, buried alive (twice), starvation… By the end, though, it was the locals who were determined to get him into Sweden, long after he had given up and he had no choice but to go along because he couldn’t walk! Reads like fiction, full of surprises (mostly the how-on-earth-is-he-still-alive kind). Other awesome true survival stories: Touching the Void by Joe Simpson, Mawson’s Will by Lennard Bickel, and the one that started it all for me North to the Night by Alvah Simon. Those are all about one person surviving all alone in extreme conditions. There are also a bunch about shipwrecked boats in arctic seas worth reading and, of course, the race to the poles. And have you read the one that inspired Moby Dick? The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex by Owen Chase. I like to read these things while sitting comfortably in my warm house.