Devil at my heels

Format:

Book

Title:

Devil at my heels

Author:

Zamperini, Louis, 1917-2014.

ISBN:

9780060188603

9780062118851

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : William Morrow, 2003.

Physical Description:

xii, 292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents:

1. That Tough Kid Down the Street 1 -- 2. The Torrance Tornado 22 -- 3. World-Class 38 -- 4. On a Wing and a Prayer 54 -- 5. Prepare to Crash 82 -- 6. Adrift 97 -- 7. Execution Island 117 -- 8. We Regret to Inform ... 132 -- 9. The Bird 150 -- 10. "If Goat Die, You Die!" 175 -- 11. The Long Road Home 190 -- 12. The Hollow Hero 208 -- 13. A Second Chance 229 -- 14. Forgiveness 249 -- 15. Not Every Old Soldier Fades Away 267.

Summary:

A 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.

Personal Subject:

Zamperini, Louis, 1917-2014.

Zamperini, Louis, 1917-2014. (OCoLC)fst01754808

Subject(s):

Bomber pilots -- United States -- Biography.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.

Survival.

Track and field athletes -- United States -- Biography.

Prisoners of war -- United States.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- California -- Los Angeles Region -- Biography.

Christian biography -- United States.

Torrance (Calif.) -- Biography.

Geographic Term:

Torrance (Calif.) -- Biography.

California -- Los Angeles Region.

California -- Torrance.

Genre:

Personal narratives -- American.

Added Author:

Rensin, David.

Holds:

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Stayton Public Library	940.5472 ZAMPERINI	Searching... Unknown
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Searching... Woodburn Public Library	940.547252 ZAMPERINI	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

The bestselling autobiography of the legendary Louis Zamperini, hero of the blockbuster Unbroken.

A modern classic by an American legend, Devil at My Heels is the riveting and deeply personal memoir by U.S. Olympian, World War II bombardier, and POW survivor Louis Zamperini. His inspiring story of courage, resilience, and faith has captivated readers and audiences of Unbroken, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. In Devil at My Heels, his official autobiography (co-written with longtime collaborator David Rensin), Zamperini shares his own first-hand account of extraordinary journey--hailed as "one of the most incredible American lives of the past century" (People).

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, starved and forced into slave labor--while the Army Air Corps declared him dead and sent official condolences to his family. On his return home, memories of the war haunted him nearly destroyed his marriage until a spiritual rebirth transformed him and led him to dedicate the rest of his long and happy life to helping at-risk youth.

Told in Zamperini's own voice, Devil at My Heels is an unforgettable 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 faith.