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A Japanese soldier refuses to surrender, and spends thirty years in the jungle.
A philosopher mocks the jury when on trial for his life.
A woman is raped, and kills herself to keep it from being covered up.
A Russian gangster loses a bet, gets a tatoo of a penis on his face, and then burns it away.
This book contains 100 true(ish) stories of courage collected from human history. Though the world has seen many heroic and admirable acts of courage, this is not about them. Instead, what all the examples of courageous acts gathered here have in common is their strangeness.
Here the reader will find the story of a blind Spartan, of three men who survived a suicide mission at Chernobyl, of a king who toasted his bride with a cup fashioned from her father's skull, of two French officers who fought thirty duels, of the woman who started a movement by refusing to move from her seat on the bus, of the stoic philosopher who tore out his guts, of a man who volunteered for Auschwitz, of the seventy-seven-year-old professor who challenged Mike Tyson, of the astronomer who died of a burst bladder because he was too polite to leave the table, and many, many more. As the reader will find out, the glory of courage is often but a step away from madness.
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