Piers Paul Read

Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors is a 1974 book by the British writer Piers Paul Read documenting the events of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.

When France falls during the Second World War, Bertrand de Roujay, a Catholic aristocrat and civil servant, escapes to England, joins the Free French, and is thrown into conflict with the Germans and with his political enemies in the Resistance