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The 12th Man
The 12th Man: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance | Astrid Karlsen Scott, Tore Haug
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The book that inspired the international film of the same name. "I remember reading We Die Alone in 1970 and I could never forget it. Then when we went to Norway to do a docudrama, people told us again and again that certain parts were pure fiction. Since I was a Norwegian that was not good enough; I had to find the truth. I sincerely believe we did, writes author Astrid Karlsen Scott. The 12th Man is the true story of Jan Baalsrud, whose struggle to escape the Gestapo and survive in Nazi-occupied Norway has inspired the international film of the same name. In late March 1943, in the midst of WWII, four Norwegian saboteurs arrived in northern Norway on a fishing cutter and set anchor in Toftefjord to establish a base for their operations. However, they were betrayed, and a German boat attacked the cutter, creating a battlefield and spiraling Jan Baalsrud into the adventure of his life. The only survivor and wounded, Baalsrud begins a perilous journey to freedom, swimming icy fjords, climbing snow-covered peaks, enduring snowstorms, and getting caught in a monstrous avalanche. Suffering from snowblindness and frostbite, more than sixty people of the Troms District risk their lives to help Baalsrud to freedom. Meticulously researched for more than five years, Karlsen Scott and Haug bring forth the truth behind this captivating, edge-of-your-seat, real-life survival story.
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The 12th Man: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance | Astrid Karlsen Scott, Tore Haug
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Day 18 - #The12thMan #RememberNovember

Looks like a good movie which is a true story of one man‘s courage.

Klou It is a really good movie!! 3y
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12th Man: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance | Astrid Karlsen Scott, Tore Haug
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The supposed “true” version already told in We Die Alone (which was an amazing book), this is the story of one man‘s harrowing escape from the Nazis through northernmost wickedly wild and freezing Norway. I tend to buy all books about the Norwegian resistance, having heard my mother-in-law‘s stories about living thru the occupation. Her father was a firefighter in Bergen when it was invaded. On sale on Amazon right now, I snatched it up.