Devil at my heels
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New York : Morrow, [2003].
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First edition.
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Bomber pilots -- United States -- Biography.
Christian biography -- United States.
Prisoners of war -- United States.
Survival.
Torrance (Calif.) -- Biography.
Track and field athletes -- United States -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- California -- Los Angeles Region -- Biography.
Zamperini, Louis, -- 1917-2014.
Christian biography -- United States.
Prisoners of war -- United States.
Survival.
Torrance (Calif.) -- Biography.
Track and field athletes -- United States -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- California -- Los Angeles Region -- Biography.
Zamperini, Louis, -- 1917-2014.
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Published
New York : Morrow, [2003].
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Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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A juvenile delinquent, a world-class NCAA miler, a 1936 Olympian, a World War II bombardier: Louis Zamperini had a life 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 finally 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, subjected 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.
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Adult.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Zamperini, L., & Rensin, D. (2003). Devil at my heels (First edition.). Morrow.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Zamperini, Louis, 1917-2014 and David. Rensin. 2003. Devil At My Heels. Morrow.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Zamperini, Louis, 1917-2014 and David. Rensin. Devil At My Heels Morrow, 2003.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Zamperini, Louis, and David Rensin. Devil At My Heels First edition., Morrow, 2003.
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