Summary

A collection of 50 stories about men and women who have survived incredible trials of endurance and achieved heroic feats in adversity.

A collection of 50 stories about men and women who have survived incredible trials of endurance and achieved heroic feats in adversity. It covers traumatic events such as 9/11 and 7/7, takes the reader into jungles, volcanoes and the eyes of storms, and ranges back in history through world wars to the early days of polar exploration.