Title:
Devil at my heels : a heroic Olympian's astonishing story of survival as a Japanese POW in World War II / Louis Zamperini with David Rensin.
ISBN:
9780062118851
9780062393333
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Publication Information:
New York : Harper, 2011.
Physical Description:
xiv, 297 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
General Note:
"A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2003 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers."--Title page verso.
Contents:
That tough kid down the street -- The Torrance tornado -- World-class -- On a wing and a prayer -- Prepare to crash -- Adrift -- Execution island -- We regret to inform ... -- The bird -- "If goat die, you die!" -- The long road home -- The hollow hero -- A second chance -- Forgiveness -- Not every soldier fades away.
Summary:
A youthful troublemaker, a world-class NCAA miler, a 1936 Olympian, a WWII bombardier: Louis Zamperini had a fuller life than most. But on May 27, 1943, it all changed in an instant when his B-24 crashed into the Pacific Ocean, leaving Louis and two other survivors drifting on a raft for forty-seven days and two thousand miles, waiting in vain to be rescued. And the worst was yet to come when they finally reached land, only to be captured by the Japanese. Louis spent the next two years as a prisoner of war--tortured and humiliated, routinely beaten, subjected to medical experiments, starved and forced into slave labor--while the Army Air Corps declared him dead and sent official condolences to his family.
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OCLC Number:
ocn733223857
Availability:
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