The Impulse to Survive: A Childhood Memoir

By Radovan Hajduk

He was a child no one protected.

In a small town in former Yugoslavia, Radovan grew up surrounded by unpredictability, violence, and fear.

This is not a story of one moment. It is a story of survival, day after day.

Through hunger, beatings, street fights, and moments of strange humor, a young boy learned to endure a world where love and pain lived side by side. Where a child had to decide, over and over again, whether to harden or to break.

But this memoir is not only about what was done to him. It is about the choice that followed.

Raw, unfiltered, and deeply human, The Impulse to Survive takes you inside a childhood shaped by chaos and asks a simple question:

When survival is all you know, what kind of man will you become?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GYJZZW37
• ISBN13: 9798257959875
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"