For those of you who’ve been moved by these stories and want to delve a little deeper, each of these books has been a huge source of inspiration to me. I hope they will be for you too.
Ash, William Under the Wire (Bantam Press, 2005)
Braddon, Russell Nancy Wake: SOE’s Greatest Heroine (The History Press, 2009)
Callahan, Steven Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea (Mariner Books, 2002)
Harrer, Heinrich The White Spider (Harper Perennial, 2005)
Heyerdahl, Thor In the Footsteps of Adam (Little, Brown, 2000)
Heyerdahl, Thor Kon-Tiki (Simon and Schuster, 2013)
Howarth, David We Die Alone (Macmillan, 1955)
King, Dean Skeletons on the Zahara (William Heinemann, 2004)
Koepcke, Juliane When I Fell from the Sky (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2012)
Luttrell, Marcus with Robinson, Patrick Lone Survivor (Little, Brown, 2007)
Macpherson, Sir Tommy with Bath, Richard Behind Enemy Lines: the Autobiography of Britain’s Most Decorated Living War Hero (Mainstream, 2010)
Moon, Chris One Step Beyond (Macmillan, 1999)
Parrado, Nando Miracle in the Andes (Orion, 2006)
Ralston, Aron 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Simon and Schuster, 2004)
Roberts, David Alone on the Ice: the Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (W.W. Norton & Company, 2013)
Simpson, Joe Touching the Void (Vintage, 1997)
Urquhart, Alistair The Forgotten Highlander (Little, Brown, 2010)
Zamperini, Louis with Rensin, David Devil at my Heels: a World War II Hero’s Epic Saga of Torment, Survival and Forgiveness (HarperCollins, 2009)