First Immanuel Lutheran Church
A welcoming community centered in Christ’s love, joyfully reaching out together
1816 NW Irving Street, Portland OR 97209
503-226-3659
Email: office@firstimmanuelluth.org
A welcoming community centered in Christ’s love, joyfully reaching out together
1816 NW Irving Street, Portland OR 97209
503-
FIRST IMMANUEL BOOK GROUP
Sunday, May 4, 6:30 p.m.
at the home of Joyce Clawson & Joan Pendergast in the Pearl District
Enjoy lively conversation and great dessert. Please call in advance for directions and to let us know you’re coming.
We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
by David Howarth
This 1955 volume is one of the most remarkable survival stories ever written. Jan Baalsrud was the only survivor of a Norwegian commando team ambushed by the Nazis during WWII. Wounded, with Germans in pursuit, he escaped and miraculously fought his way through the Norwegian tundra to a distant village, where he was saved by locals who helped spirit him to Sweden. Baalsrud suffered frostbite and snowblindness, came through an avalanche, and lived to tell the tale. It’s all true, but you still won’t believe it.
Read ahead for next time: July 13―A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. This absorbing account by a young man who, as a boy of 12, gets swept up in Sierra Leone’s civil war, goes beyond even the best journalistic efforts in revealing the life and mind of a child abducted into the horrors of warfare.
