David Howarth (1) (1912–1991)
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Howarth, David
- Nome legale
- Howarth, David Armine
- Data di nascita
- 1912-07-28
- Data di morte
- 1991-07-02
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Lunna Voe, Shetland, UK
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Nazione (per mappa)
- United Kingdom
- Luogo di nascita
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Lunna Voe, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
- Istruzione
- University of Cambridge
- Attività lavorative
- naval officer
boatbuilder
historian - Relazioni
- Howarth, Stephen (son)
- Organizzazioni
- SOE (Special Operations Executive) during WWII
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- King Haakon VII's Cross of Liberty
Chevalier First Class in the Order of St Olav - Breve biografia
- David Armine Howarth was a British historian and author. After graduating from Cambridge University, he was a radio war correspondent for BBC at the start of the Second World War. Howarth joined the Navy after the fall of France. He became involved in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and ultimately in the Shetland Bus, an SOE operation manned by Norwegians running a clandestine route between Shetland and Norway. He was second in command at the Naval base in Shetland. For his successful efforts in the espionage of the German presence in Norway, he received the highest honor a foreigner can obtain from Norway.
After the war he wrote several books about the war in general and of specific events in the war.
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A biography of Jan Baalsrud. Jan was a Norwegian who was a British trained commando in WWII. A group of 10 left the Shetlands and landed in Norway to disrupt the Nazi's who had entrenched themselves. Jan's group was betrayed and he was the only survivor. Through amputating his own toes and suffering the interminable cold, he finally was taken by charitable Sami (Northern Scandinavians), who were fired at, across Finland into Sweden. He found the Norwegians very gracious and they helped him even though to do so put themselves and their families in peril. A great survival against all odds story. 257 pages… (altro)
A good summary of a pivotal year in English history. Slim book but very informative.
Not a very good title for an excellent book. The title sounds like the gruesome reminder of our earthly end. But, I think it was probably meant to say that "ALONE--we die". As the book is as much about the people who helped Jan, as the man himself. We all need people in this life, and it is never more apparent as when we are in grave trouble. This book will renew your faith in your fellow man. The film, "The 12th Man", which was based on the book, is also excellent.
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- Utenti
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- Popolarità
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- Voto
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- Recensioni
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- ISBN
- 213
- Lingue
- 13
- Preferito da
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Read by: Stuart Langton
Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
This is a true story of a Norwegian, Jan Baalsrud‘s attempt to escape the Nazi occupiers of his country as he travels alone from the Arctic to southern Norway and from there hopefully to neutral Sweden. He's been injured in a failed attack against the Nazi occupiers. The rest of his group was killed and he survived though injured.
Told in present tense in the third person, we follow Jan on his journey. The background is white, there are no markers to get bearings. He can’t see mountains till he is almost upon them, and then only knows only when he discovers that he climbing.
Are there Nazis following his trail? He’s a wanted man. His injuries increase and the frostbite is working from his toes up his legs. He manages to survive from his own perseverance and with the occasional help from sympathizers who he is able to contact but who cannot accompany him.
As well as the elements and the fear of being discovered by the Nazis, he fears the people he finds in the early part of his trek. Will they betray him to the Nazis? Is it fair to put them in a difficult position. Even if they are unafraid to help, what will happen to their families if they are captured? Jan is an honorable man.
As the book progresses we cannot imagine how Jan can possibly survive. His snow-blindness, his weeks alone unable to move because of his injuries, his hallucinations, his pain, his descent into madness.
I can’t even comment on the prose. I was so bound up in Jan’s struggle I could think of nothing else. And after completing the book I could not take to any other. It’s a compelling and gripping read, expertly executed. David Howarth manages to put us into 1940s Norway, into a landscape the likes of which is far from my own experience. I could imagine the fjords, avalanches and glaciers - words I’ve never really known the meaning of. I was there with Jan, in the bleak landscape of a Nazi Norway.
I highly recommend this book.… (altro)