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As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Escape from a Siberian Labour Camp and His 3-Year Trek to Freedom
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4.09 avg rating — 2,759 ratings
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A Night to Remember
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4.10 avg rating — 29,051 ratings
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Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
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3.87 avg rating — 46,875 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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The Children's Blizzard
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3.89 avg rating — 13,131 ratings
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438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
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4.34 avg rating — 15,818 ratings
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Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival
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4.03 avg rating — 9,670 ratings
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Into the Wild
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4.02 avg rating — 1,193,370 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 998,401 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 568,865 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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4.46 avg rating — 165,768 ratings
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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
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4.23 avg rating — 64,674 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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4.17 avg rating — 118,979 ratings
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
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4.14 avg rating — 82,041 ratings
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Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
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4.15 avg rating — 20,851 ratings
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,364,986 ratings
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Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
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4.37 avg rating — 26,744 ratings
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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4.12 avg rating — 119,086 ratings
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
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4.07 avg rating — 12,251 ratings
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Papillon
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4.23 avg rating — 75,763 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,196,226 ratings
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
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4.24 avg rating — 21,897 ratings
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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
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4.33 avg rating — 23,576 ratings
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Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
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3.98 avg rating — 12,325 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
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4.09 avg rating — 10,650 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 161,803 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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4.36 avg rating — 54,232 ratings
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A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 460,912 ratings
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Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival
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3.66 avg rating — 6,547 ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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4.48 avg rating — 356,988 ratings
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A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
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4.38 avg rating — 27,832 ratings
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Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
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4.20 avg rating — 3,256 ratings
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 868,136 ratings
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Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
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3.98 avg rating — 26,375 ratings
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Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic
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4.31 avg rating — 786 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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4.16 avg rating — 623,929 ratings
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Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II
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4.27 avg rating — 11,728 ratings
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
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4.25 avg rating — 80,569 ratings
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Lost
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4.14 avg rating — 1,018 ratings
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Young Men and Fire
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4.03 avg rating — 7,317 ratings
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Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
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3.61 avg rating — 8,204 ratings
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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
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4.18 avg rating — 5,034 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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4.05 avg rating — 72,446 ratings
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Overboard!: A True Blue-water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival
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4.28 avg rating — 1,086 ratings
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The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
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3.99 avg rating — 18,362 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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3.90 avg rating — 220,159 ratings
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South: The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurance
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4.20 avg rating — 11,348 ratings
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Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
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4.06 avg rating — 13,166 ratings
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The Sledge Patrol: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Victory
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4.17 avg rating — 394 ratings
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
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4.29 avg rating — 17,760 ratings
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The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
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4.53 avg rating — 5,663 ratings
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Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea
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4.33 avg rating — 9,586 ratings
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Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
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3.88 avg rating — 5,099 ratings
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66 Days Adrift: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Open Sea
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3.83 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party
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4.08 avg rating — 1,957 ratings
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Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II
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3.94 avg rating — 2,275 ratings
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The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom
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4.32 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Intended for Evil: A Survivor's Story of Love, Faith, and Courage in the Cambodian Killing Fields
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4.36 avg rating — 145 ratings
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The Ice Master
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4.13 avg rating — 3,100 ratings
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A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
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4.17 avg rating — 10,223 ratings
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I Let You Go
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4.03 avg rating — 157,595 ratings
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
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4.12 avg rating — 11,473 ratings
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3,096 Days
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3.97 avg rating — 15,816 ratings
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The Hours
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3.96 avg rating — 148,838 ratings
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Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and her Courageous Crew
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4.15 avg rating — 2,594 ratings
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
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3.91 avg rating — 85,453 ratings
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Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
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4.03 avg rating — 875 ratings
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The Climb Up to Hell
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4.06 avg rating — 570 ratings
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Journey into the Whirlwind
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4.41 avg rating — 4,809 ratings
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No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII
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4.17 avg rating — 2,210 ratings
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Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea
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3.76 avg rating — 6,099 ratings
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So Close to Home: A True Story of an American Family's Fight for Survival During World War II
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3.92 avg rating — 401 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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The Revenant
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3.96 avg rating — 54,871 ratings
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Into the Storm: Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival
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4.18 avg rating — 1,160 ratings
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The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I
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3.86 avg rating — 1,191 ratings
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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
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4.33 avg rating — 6,344 ratings
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Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory
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4.15 avg rating — 586 ratings
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Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
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4.03 avg rating — 174 ratings
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My Lost Brothers: The Untold Story by the Yarnell Hill Fire's Lone Survivor
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4.39 avg rating — 2,453 ratings
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I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives
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4.24 avg rating — 2,141 ratings
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Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific
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4.19 avg rating — 645 ratings
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If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story
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4.24 avg rating — 3,952 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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4.07 avg rating — 61,858 ratings
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Fatal North: Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition
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4.18 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
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4.36 avg rating — 11,677 ratings
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The Shattered Lens: A War Photographer's True Story of Captivity and Survival in Syria
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3.36 avg rating — 243 ratings
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The Light in the Window
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4.25 avg rating — 1,921 ratings
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Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917
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3.98 avg rating — 1,198 ratings
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Sully: My Search for What Really Matters
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4.19 avg rating — 10,631 ratings
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83 Hours Till Dawn
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3.79 avg rating — 108 ratings
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In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic
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4.05 avg rating — 2,895 ratings
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The Only Girl in the World
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3.77 avg rating — 9,313 ratings
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
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4.01 avg rating — 72,092 ratings
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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
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4.06 avg rating — 24,679 ratings
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Blitz: The Story of December 29, 1940
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3.81 avg rating — 90 ratings
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