Russia nearly killed Fox News Benjamin Hall but hes happier than ever in his new life

Fox News Channel correspondent Benjamin Hall lost half a leg, most of a foot, part of a hand and one eye’s sight in a Russian missile attack covering Ukraine’s war.But talking to The Post about his new book, “Resolute: How We Humans Keep Finding Ways to Beat the Toughest Odds,” he reveals, “I eventually found that the physical injuries” were “the easiest to comprehend and get over.”Going home and learning to live a new life was harder.“There were a number of things that I couldn’t do.

The ways in which people interact with you are different,” he says, “and that’s when I started to learn who the new me was.”Hall was the sole survivor of a March 2022 blast just outside Kyiv as he, cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian translator-fixer Sasha Kuvshinova were driving away after interviewing soldiers.His bestselling 2023 book “Saved: A War Reporter’s Mission to Make it Home” detailed his harrowing journey out of Ukraine and grueling recovery.“Resolute” — which entered The New York Times Best Sellers list at No.

4 — goes beyond the medical and physical.“This book is a result of the hardest journalistic mission I’ve ever undertaken — an inquisition into why I’m still alive,” Hall writes.

“The hardest part of my recovery, it turned out, was when I re-entered the real world.”It’s “an examination not just of my own recovery but of the other people I speak to,” he tells The Post.“What gave them the ability to just stand up and get through absolutely anything? I think it’s fascinating.

It’s human nature at its finest.”He found, he writes, “the trait that most shapes the destinies of people and nations and movements, more critical even than bravery and cunning and all the other human traits, is the capacity to withstand and recover from adversity.Or, in a word, resilience.”He set out to learn more about what gives human beings resilience — and the inspiring book by the guy with “post-traumatic...