Don't Give Up, Don't Give in: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life - Hardcover

Zamperini, Louis; Rensin, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062368338 ISBN 13: 9780062368331

Publisher: Dey Street Books, 2014

Synopsis

{ Don't Give Up, Don't Give in: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life } By Zamperini, Louis ( Author ) 11-2014 [ Hardcover ]

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Review:

"An extraordinary hero."--Publishers Weekly

"One of the most incredible American lives of the past century."--People, on Louis Zamperini

"Louis Zamperini's life is a story that befits the greatness of the country he served."--John McCain, on Louis Zamperini

"A fitting capstone to the Zamperini legend. ... This valedictory book reflects the charm and colorful authority he brought to the world."--USA Today

"Louis Zamperini is a modern miracle. His life reads like something out of a storybook."--Billy Graham, on Louis Zamperini

"Not simply another rehashing of Zamperini's incredible history, this second memoir, dictated to co-author Rensin during the last year of the author's life, brims with sage wisdom, learned advice and fond observations from his adventurous 97 years. ... Inspirational."--Kirkus Reviews

From the Back Cover:

Champion.
Survivor.
Hero.
Legend.

Completed just two days before Louis Zamperini's death at age 97, Don't Give Up, Don't Give In shares a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and humor from one of America's most inspiring lives. Zamperini's story has touched millions through Laura Hillenbrand's biography Unbroken, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. Now, in his own words, Louis Zamperini reveals, with warmth and great charm, the essential values and lessons that sustained him throughout his remarkable journey.

He was a youthful troublemaker from California who turned his life around to become a 1936 Olympian and a world-class miler at the University of Southern California. Putting aside his superstar track career, Louis Zamperini volunteered for the army before Pearl Harbor and was thrust into the violent combat of World War II as a B-24 bombardier. While on a rescue mission, his plane went down in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where he survived, against all odds, drifting two thousand miles in a small raft for forty-seven days. His struggle was only beginning: Zamperini was captured by the Japanese and, for more than two years, he courageously endured torture and psychological abuse in a series of prisoner-of-war camps. He returned home to face more dark hours, but in 1949 Zamperini's life was transformed by a spiritual rebirth that would guide him through the next sixty-five years of his long and happy life.

Cowritten with longtime collaborator David Rensin, Louis Zamperini's Don't Give Up, Don't Give In is an extraordinary last testament that captures the wisdom of a life lived to the fullest.

A son of Italian immigrants, Louis Zamperini (1917-2014) was a U.S. Olympic runner, World War II bombardier, and POW survivor. After the war, he returned to the United States to found the Victory Boys Camp for at-risk youth and became an inspirational speaker. Zamperini's story was told in his 2003 autobiography Devil at My Heels, as well as in Laura Hillenbrand's 2010 biography Unbroken.

David Rensin worked closely with Louis Zamperini for many years and cowrote Devil at My Heels, as well as fifteen other books, including five New York Times bestsellers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dey Street Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0062368338
• ISBN 13: 9780062368331
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272