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A motivational speaker and former POW recounts his athletic southern California childhood, participation in the 1936 Olympics, imprisonment and torture by an abusive Japanese guard, descent into alcoholism, and salvation by preacher Billy Graham.

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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.

This is the remarkable true story of accomplishment, glory, disaster, survival, and true heroism made famous by Laura Hillenbrand in her #1 New York Times bestseller Unbroken. Told in Louis Zamperini’s own words, Devil at My Heels is a stirring memoir from one of the greatest of the “Greatest Generation,” a living document about the brutality of war, the tenacity of the human spirit, and the power of forgiveness.

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Athletically gifted, Louis Zamperini propelled himself from the tough streets of Southern California to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and to an NCAA mile record at USC that stood for 20 years. When war came he left the track for a B24 - a move that would have heartbreaking consequences. On a routine mission, his plane crashed into the shark-infested Pacific where he would drift 2000 miles for 47 days before being found by the Japanese. As a prisoner of war, Zamperini endured almost three years of horrible torture and humiliation at the hands of a psychopathic guard nicknamed "the Bird". Yet Zamperini endured and returned home a hero. Unfortunately, the terrible memory of his experiences haunted him. Zamperini turned to alcohol and spiralled into the depths of despair until a young preacher named Billy Graham helped him rediscover the faith that would lead him to return to Japan and forgive his now-imprisoned captors. Moving and unforgettable, terrifying and inspirational, Devil At My Hells is not to be missed.

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  • PublisherWilliam Morrow
  • Publication date2003
  • ISBN 10 006018860X
  • ISBN 13 9780060188603
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages322
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