They survived

a study of the will to live

An absorbingly interesting choice of almost unbelievable stories of survival, each confronting man (in one case woman) with circumstances which would seem to defy human endurance and mental and emotional and spiritual powers. The author has written of a miner imprisoned in a wrecked mine for 23 days; of a deserter from the Foreign Legion exposed on a raft with four days rations for 32 days; of extremes of calamity on desert and on mountain; of deliberately accepted long-range survival experiments at the Poles; of the degradation of a concentration camp. Wilfrid Noyce has sought to analyze the factors that contribute to the conquest of self, the disciplines, the hidden skills, the inner resources, the will to live

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