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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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4.10 avg rating — 2,801 ratings
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A Night to Remember
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4.10 avg rating — 30,208 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 — 47,143 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 — 13,417 ratings
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438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
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4.34 avg rating — 16,750 ratings
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Jungle
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4.04 avg rating — 9,930 ratings
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Into the Wild
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4.02 avg rating — 1,208,984 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 1,008,856 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 579,847 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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4.46 avg rating — 173,400 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 — 65,776 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 — 121,146 ratings
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
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4.14 avg rating — 82,811 ratings
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Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
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4.15 avg rating — 21,173 ratings
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,386,144 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 — 27,369 ratings
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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4.12 avg rating — 119,949 ratings
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
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4.07 avg rating — 12,438 ratings
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Papillon
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4.23 avg rating — 76,778 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,263,962 ratings
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
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4.24 avg rating — 22,280 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 — 23,793 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 — 12,455 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 — 10,870 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 165,019 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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4.36 avg rating — 55,560 ratings
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A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 464,512 ratings
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Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival
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3.66 avg rating — 6,627 ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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4.48 avg rating — 362,908 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 — 28,277 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 — 3,302 ratings
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 878,331 ratings
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Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
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3.98 avg rating — 26,983 ratings
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Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic
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4.30 avg rating — 796 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 — 631,980 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 — 11,960 ratings
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
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4.26 avg rating — 81,138 ratings
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Lost
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4.14 avg rating — 1,041 ratings
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Young Men and Fire
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4.03 avg rating — 7,457 ratings
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Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
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3.61 avg rating — 8,376 ratings
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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
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4.19 avg rating — 5,107 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 — 74,049 ratings
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Overboard!: A True Blue-Water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival
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4.28 avg rating — 1,107 ratings
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The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
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3.99 avg rating — 18,666 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 — 223,593 ratings
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South: The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurance
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4.19 avg rating — 11,555 ratings
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Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
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4.06 avg rating — 13,552 ratings
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The Sledge Patrol: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Victory
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4.18 avg rating — 404 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 — 18,188 ratings
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The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
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4.54 avg rating — 5,897 ratings
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Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea
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4.33 avg rating — 9,709 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 — 5,225 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 — 212 ratings
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Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party
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4.08 avg rating — 1,988 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 — 2,300 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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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 — 109 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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4.37 avg rating — 149 ratings
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The Ice Master
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4.13 avg rating — 3,136 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 — 10,317 ratings
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I Let You Go
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4.03 avg rating — 161,098 ratings
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
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4.12 avg rating — 11,616 ratings
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3,096 Days
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3.97 avg rating — 16,256 ratings
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The Hours
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3.96 avg rating — 150,056 ratings
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Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and her Courageous Crew
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4.16 avg rating — 2,644 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 — 89,075 ratings
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Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
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4.04 avg rating — 884 ratings
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The Climb Up to Hell
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4.05 avg rating — 582 ratings
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Journey into the Whirlwind
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4.33 avg rating — 4,078 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 — 2,259 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 — 6,212 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 — 409 ratings
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The Revenant
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3.97 avg rating — 55,939 ratings
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Into the Storm: Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival
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4.19 avg rating — 1,184 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 — 1,212 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 — 6,481 ratings
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Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory
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4.15 avg rating — 591 ratings
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Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
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4.02 avg rating — 176 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 — 2,561 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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4.25 avg rating — 2,183 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 — 653 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 — 3,983 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 — 63,153 ratings
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Fatal North: Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition
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4.19 avg rating — 1,394 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 — 11,856 ratings
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The Shattered Lens: A War Photographer's True Story of Captivity and Survival in Syria
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3.37 avg rating — 248 ratings
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The Light in the Window
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4.25 avg rating — 1,944 ratings
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Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917
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3.99 avg rating — 1,213 ratings
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Sully: My Search for What Really Matters
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4.19 avg rating — 10,785 ratings
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83 Hours Till Dawn
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3.80 avg rating — 110 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 — 2,931 ratings
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The Only Girl in the World
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3.77 avg rating — 9,430 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 — 72,902 ratings
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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
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4.06 avg rating — 24,825 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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