Preferably
1. Write in the first person
2. Not too much description of overall context, no history/philosophy lessons. No over description of the surrounding
3. In an impossible to comprend situation, (e.g. Auschwitz/Treblinka, or Everest disaster, or War)
by avicihk
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I really enjoyed Tracks! It takes place in the Australian desert and is written in the first person. It’s not a war situation, but it is a life or death situation that the author voluntarily put herself in.
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read is great.
Maybe not in the exact same vein but… A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson. it’s a true story about a mountaineering accident that “should have” killed him.