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PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060934212
ISBN-139780060934217
eBay Product ID (ePID)6027574
Product Key Features
Book TitleDevil at My Heels
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMilitary / World War II, Sports, Military
Publication Year2004
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorDavid Rensin, Louis Zamperini
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight9.6 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal940.54/7252/092 B
SynopsisThe "inspirational" and "extraordinary" memoir of one of the most courageous of the greatest generation, Louis Zamperini: Olympian, WWII Japanese POW and survivor. A juvenile delinquent, a world class NCAA miler, a 1936 Olympian, a WWII bombardier: Louis Zamperini had a fuller than most, when it changed in an instant. On May 27, 1943, his B-24 crashed into the Pacific Ocean. Louis and two other survivors found a raft amid the flaming wreckage and waited for rescue. Instead, they drifted two thousand miles for forty-seven days. Their only food: two shark livers and three raw albatross. Their only water: sporadic rainfall. Their only companions: hope and faith-and the ever-present sharks. On the forty-seventh day, mere skeletons close to death, Zamperini and pilot Russell Phillips spotted land-and were captured by the Japanese. Thus began more than two years of torture and humiliation as a prisoner of war. Zamperini was threatened with beheading, subject to medical experiments, routinely beaten, hidden in a secret interrogation facility, starved and forced into slave labour, and was the constant victim of a brutal prison guard nicknamed the Bird-a man so vicious that the other guards feared him and called him a psychopath. Meanwhile, the Army Air Corps declared Zamperini dead and President Roosevelt sends official condolences to his family, who never gave up hope that he was alive. Somehow, Zamperini survived and he returned home a hero. The celebration was short-lived. He plunged into drinking and brawling and the depths of rage and despair. Nightly, the Bird's face leered at him in his dreams. It would take years, but with the love of his wife and the power of faith, he was able to stop the nightmares and the drinking. A stirring memoir from one of the greatest of the "Greatest Generation," DEVIL AT MY HEELS is a living document about the brutality of war, the tenacity of the human spirit, and the power of forgiveness., "An extraordinary story of war and a touching tale of the triumph of love." -James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers Devil at My Heels is the riveting, astonishing, and inspirational memoir of one of the greatest of the Greatest Generation: U.S. Olympian, World War II bombardier, Japanese POW, and survivor Louis Zamperini. His story of courage and resilience is so extraordinary that Lauren Hillebrand, author of Seabiscuit, made it the subject of her acclaimed bestseller, Unbroken. But Devil at My Heels is Zamperini's remarkable personal history in his own words-a gripping, first-hand account of every trial, torment, escape, and remarkable triumph-with an introduction by Senator John McCain, himself a former Air Force flyer and prisoner of war.
LC Classification NumberD811
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- 25. Mär. 2021
good pow story
A little gruesome. but a good read. A little to much religion too.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 07. Okt. 2022
Loved comparing it to Unbroken.
Great story!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 22. Apr. 2017
Well written example of human endurance and the power of forgiveness.
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- 17. Nov. 2021
it works
Inspiring. . . Louis Zamperini is such an inspirationBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
