True Grit

Author: Grylls, Bear

True stories of heroism, endurance & survival

Published on 2 June 2014 by Transworld Publishers Ltd (Corgi Books) in the United Kingdom.

Bear Grylls knows what it takes to survive. But he's

not the first.

Take the American bombardier Louis Zamperini, who

survived 47 days stranded at sea by catching and killing hungry sharks and

drinking the warm blood of albatrosses ? only to be captured by the Japanese

and horrifically tortured for years in their most brutal POW camps...

Or Marcus Luttrell, a Navy SEAL who single-handedly

took on a Taliban regiment before dragging his bleeding, bullet-ridden body

for days through the harsh mountains of Afghanistan...

Or Nando Parrado, one of the survivors of a horrific

air-crash high in the ice-bound Andes, who only lived because he was willing

to eat the flesh of his dead companions...

In

this gripping new book, Bear tells the stories of the adventurers, explorers,

soldiers and spies whose refusal to quit in the most extreme situations has

inspired him throughout his life. Some of them make uncomfortable reading -

survival is rarely pretty. But all of them are tales of eye-watering

bravery, death-defying resilience and extraordinary mental toughness by men

and women who have one thing in common: true grit.

What readers are saying about

True Grit:***** 'Exhilarating . . . It

kept me gripped throughout.'*****

'Inspirational stories of survival and endurance . . . kept me

interested till the end.'***** 'To keep going, to keep

hopeful, to never quit these are lessons in life that all of us need to

hear.'