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Books > Fiction > True stories > Endurance & survival
An extraordinary novel based on an incredible true story of love,
resilience, survival and hope. Perfect for fans of THE TATTOOIST OF
AUSCHWITZ, THE VOLUNTEER and THE LIBRARIAN OF AUSCHWITZ.
_______________________________ Against all odds, love will lead
them home. Shurka, her husband and their two small children never
thought the war would reach their remote Polish village. They were
wrong. Forced to flee their family home, they find shelter with
their fellow Jews in the ghetto - but every night more and more
people disappear, taken away on trucks to never be seen again. As
terrible rumours of extermination camps swirl, Shurka realises that
the longer they stay in the ghetto, the lower their chances of
survival. Their best hope is to flee into the Polish forest, where
Jewish resistance fighters hold out against Nazi search parties.
Their new life is precarious in the extreme - and will test them
more than they ever thought possible... Even in the dark, hope can
be found. _______________________________ Surviving The War is the
international Amazon bestselling survival and holocaust story,
based on an incredible true story and previously published as
Surviving The Forest. It has been translated into English from the
original Hebrew.
Josee's story has put the reality of life out there. "You wake up
in the morning with a normal life, and in the afternoon, gunshots
make you leave everything you had behind," said Josee. Her story
tells how you can still fight for your rights even at a younger
age. When she was a teenager, she was trapped in the war zones in
three different East African countries (Burundi civil war, 1993,
Rwandan Genocide, 1994 and Congo DRC civil war, 1996). "I was born
refugee and always found myself in the same position in every
country that I have lived in, until the age of 29," she said. She
was used to running away because of war and became so traumatised
to believe that she could settle or feel comfortable living in a
new country without being worried that at any time things might
turn around the wrong way. She always thought that war might break
out and make her leave again. In her story of being a Survivor
Champion, she also opens up about her experiences of domestic
violence, living an emotionally abusive life and many more
tragedies that will be found in the pages of this book. Josee's
story shows that you can always be adventurous and try to move to
other places for a better life. She says, "The best decision I have
ever made in life was moving to other places (countries, cities)
for a better life. You don't have to settle for a painful life."
In 2013, Mick May was diagnosed with the fatal asbestos-linked
cancer, mesothelioma, whose average medical life expectancy is 10
months. Seven years later he is flourishing, full of joie de vivre,
with a long life-expectancy ahead of him. His case has made medical
history and is giving new hope to a multitude of terminally ill
cancer sufferers around the world. Mick's medical journey makes for
a fascinating read as it weaves from the pain of his many
treatments to the pleasures of his frequent fishing trips to
British and exotic International rivers. Threaded into this are
snapshots of Mick's creation and leadership of a leading offender
rehabilitation charity; his deepening religious faith; his
successful legal action against the merchant bank whose offices
exposed him to asbestos in the 1980s; his chairmanship of a school
ravaged by the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire tragedy, and the happiness
of his family life with his remarkable wife and six children.
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