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What are some books about overcoming many adversities? By which I mean relentlessly struggling through hardship and failure before attaining a hard earned victory.

>> No.11168862

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>>11168862

>> No.11169252

Bump

>> No.11169832

>>11168852
lol hitler got owned by shekelstein and de gang

>> No.11171415

>>11168852
the count of monte christo

alternatively, "The Stars my Destination" by Alfred Bester

> VORGA I KILL YOU

>> No.11172985

>>11168852
Dude. Picaresque novels in general although THE classic ends in defeat: Don Quixote. Otherwise Tom Jones, etc.

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>it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.

>> No.11173319

>>11168852
>Kills himself

>> No.11173361

>>11168852
Robinson Crusoe, which interestingly Hitler considered one of the few fiction works worth reading (along with Uncle Tom's Cabin and Gulliver's Travels).

>> No.11173366

>>11168852
Storm of Steel.

>> No.11173370

>>11173361
and karl may
>every soldier should carry winnetou during operation barbarossa

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