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2. Survivalism in fiction - Wikipedia

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   Survivalism in fiction. Portrayals of survivalism, and survivalist themes and elements such as survival retreats have been fictionalised in print, film, and electronic media. This genre was especially influenced by the advent of nuclear weapons, and the potential for societal collapse in light of a Cold War nuclear conflagration.

3. Unbroken (book) - Wikipedia

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   Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption is a 2010 non-fiction book by Laura Hillenbrand. Unbroken is a biography of World War II veteran Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic track star who survived a plane crash in the Pacific Theater, spent 47 days drifting on a raft, and then survived more than two and a half years as a prisoner of war (POW) in three Japanese POW ...

4. Skeletons on the Zahara - Wikipedia

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   368 pp (first edition, hardcover) ISBN. 978-0-316-83514-5. Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival is a 2004 nonfiction book written by maritime historian Dean King. [1] [2] It is based on two of the survivors' journals, primarily Captain James Riley 's memoir Sufferings in Africa. [3] [4] To research the book, Dean King embarked on a ...

5. Ten shocking survival stories that real people lived to tell

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   A bull elk bugles in a field. (272447 from Pixabay/) This story originally featured on Field & Stream.. Part of the thrill of going hunting and fishing is knowing there is always a little risk ...

6. Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors - Wikipedia

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   Alive tells the story of an Uruguayan rugby team (who were alumni of Stella Maris College ), and their friends and family who were involved in the airplane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. The plane crashed into the Andes mountains on Friday 13 October 1972. Of the 45 people on the flight, only 16 survived 72 days of sub-zero temperatures.

7. Lost in Shangri-La - Wikipedia

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   Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II is a 2011 non-fiction book by American author Mitchell Zuckoff about a US military airplane called "The Gremlin Special", which crashed on May 13, 1945 in Netherlands New Guinea, and the subsequent rescue of the survivors.