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Devil At My Heels
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ISBN 13: 9780062393333
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Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 297 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Seller Inventory # 163390
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Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II
Seller: Book Grocer, Tullamarine, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. [Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.Author: Louis ZamperiniFormat: Paperback Number of Pages: 320The "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 prisoners of war. Zamperini was threatened with beheading, subject to medical experiments, routinely beaten, hidden in a secret interrogation facility, starved and forced into slave labor, 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 sent 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. Paperback. Seller Inventory # 9780062393333-SECONDHAND
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Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II
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Harper Collins Publishers, New York, NY, USA, 2011
ISBN 10: 0062393332
ISBN 13: 9780062393333
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Seller: Reading Habit, Buttaba, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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Medium Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Medium softcover, reprint, 340g, 297pgs. Book is in good condition with only mild general wear and tear and moderate page discolouration/spotting throughout, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Seller Inventory # BIOUSA1130
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Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II.
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HarperCollins, New York, 2011
ISBN 10: 0062393332
ISBN 13: 9780062393333
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Seller: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Paperback trade, very good condition, minor edgewear, remainder stripe. 297 pp. Louis Zamperini tells his story in his own words. He had a full life as a world-class NCAA miler, a 1936 Olympian, and as a WW2 bombardier. In 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 liferaft for 47 days and 2000 miles. They finally reached land, only to be captured by the Japanese. Louis spent the next two years as a prisoner of war. The Army Air Corps declared him dead and sent official condolences to his family. This is a remarkable true story of accomplishment, glory, disaster, survival, and true heroism made famous by Laura Hillenbrand in her book 'Unbroken'. This is a story of the brutality of war, the tenacity of the human spirit, and the power of forgiveness. Seller Inventory # 40895
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