They Lived To Tell The Tale (by Reader's Digest)

• 2010 edition,  479 pages
• Published by Readers' Digest, Australia
• Hardcover with illustrated boards.
• Very good condition, as new.

Illustrated with more than 250 dramatic photographs, maps and graphics.   Incredible real-life stories of adventure and survival.  51 tales of spine-tingling bravery.

Struck by lightning 20 times, savaged by a tiger shark, walking 400km with a bullet lodged in your head, enduring makeshift lung surgery on a jumbo jet.  Could you survive?  The remarkable men and women in this book did  -  and they lived to tell the tale.  Some are well-known, many are simply ordinary people, caught up in extraordinary events.  Read their stories of super-human endurance and be thrilled, shocked, moved and inspired.

• Nelson Mandela, Lance Armstron, Stuart Diver, Joe Simpson, Aron Ralston  - great survivors we have taken to our hearts
• The London bombings, 9/11, Tiananmen Square, Hiroshima, Auschwitz, the Burma Railway, Iraq  - events that rocked the world but could not crush the human spirit
• 'Where are they now?'  - updates on what has happened to these heroes since their shattering experiences.