2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Scottish WWII soldier who survived the fall of Singapore, the Death Railway construction as a Japanese POW, a hellship sinking, and a nuclear bomb — his survival account The Forgotten Highlander containing the most extreme concentration of individual wartime suffering and survival of any personal memoir.
American author whose debut memoir I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell documented his wild, irresponsible young male behavior and became a New York Times bestseller — and who subsequently underwent significant personal transformation and pivoted to book publishing entrepreneurship with Scribe Media.