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. Suffering from snow blindness and frostbite, more than sixty people of the Troms District risk their lives to help Baalsrud to freedom. 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. However, they were betrayed, and a German boat attacked the cutter, creating a battlefield and spiraling Jan Baalsrud into the adventure of his life. 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. flying with 2 to 3 feet predicted over our neighboring Wind River and Gros Ventre Mountains.Summary: "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.We supplement with food collected from Jackson Hole Food rescue which is mostly dairy, bread and past date vegetables and food from the grocery stores and restaurants. Our land is irrigated from Granite Creek and the Snake River and we raise and bale our own organic hay. We raise a variety of livestock which includes some heritage breeds of animals and poultry. We manage a small diversified organic farm including leased land which totals about 40 acres in the Jackson Hole valley. I've done a dozen different jobs including construction, boat building,magazine writing and commercial fishing and retired from the Emergency and Operating Room in 2004. My wife and I live in a log cabin I built from standing dead lodgepole trees we cut from Shadow Mountain and regional local timber in 1976. Army doc in the last years of the Viet Nam fiasco. I attended Holy Cross,West Point and UNC in Chapel Hill(MD"71). I was born in Cascade county Montana and raised in a dozen Air Force SAC bases. IT is extremely well written and suspenseful and is a page turning extravaganza which will lock the reader from beginning to end. We Die Alone was written almost seventy years ago and deserves much wider dissemination and remembrance. Above and beyond the call of duty is an understatement and Davis Howarth gives credit where credit is due. The final leg was a mad dash across a thawing lake on the border in Lapland being pulled by reindeer with German bullets zinging over their heads.īaalsrud is clearly a remarkable man but the real heroes were the villagers in these remote hamlets who risked their lives to save him. The photographs in the book showed the heroic Norwegians and their Fjords and villages and even include some pictures of a memorial climb by Baalsrud and three of his rescuers a decade later. He went back to the area some years later and retraced all the events, photographing and interviewing not only Jan Baalsrud but all of the Norwegian farmers and fishermen who concealed Baalsrud and help him reach the Swedish border. It tells the story of Jan Baalsrud, the only survivor from a group. Howarth had heard of bits and pieces of the saga during the war and found it almost unbelievable and his work to unearth the details was a masterwork in itself. Mann) (Zwart 2018) is also a historical war survival movie. This is the story of that escape pieced meticulously together by Howarth in a thin book published in 1954. After the arrival of the doomed vessel at the tip of Norway, nothing more was ever heard again of the fate of the men until much later in the war when it was revealed that there had been one survivor, Jan Baalsrud who managed to escape to neutral Sweden. The author, David Howarth, a Naval officer and British historian was involved in the Shetland Bus, the very SOE operation based in the Shetland Islands that was responsible for this particular tragic fiasco. Thus begins one of the most improbable escape and evasion stories ever to come out of the Second World War. Only Jan escapes up a steep snow slope, shot in the foot and fighting for his life. Everything goes wrong in a brief firefight as the 4 man commando group and the 8 man crew flees to shore under a hail of gunfire. The four man English trained unit arrives at a remote island in a disguised commercial fishing boat laden with explosives and arms smuggled inside herring barrels and fish boxes only to be betrayed by collaborators who alert the Nazi occupiers. We Die Alone is the miraculous survival story of Jan Baalsrud, a Norwegian commando infiltrated into northern Norway in the late winter of 1943 with a mission to disrupt or destroy Nazi communication and air assets.
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