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Devil at My Heels
A World War II Hero's Saga of Torment, Survival, and Forgiveness
by David Rensin ; Louis Zamperini
ISBN: 006018860X
ISBN-13: 9780060188603
Format: Hardcover
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published date: 2003
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6.5 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1.26 pounds
Pages: 288
Publisher's Notes
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.
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.
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Devil at My Heels: A World War II Hero's Epic Saga of Torment, Survival, and Forgiveness
Louis Zamperini with David Rensin
NY: William Morrow, 2003. remaindered, vg/vg, 292 pages with map endpapers, 16 pages of b+w photos, tight and clean, creases and light wear at head and foot of spine. Dust jacket has light wear to spine ends and corners in a Brodart protector. "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...drifted 2,000 miles for forty-seven days. 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...". First Edition. ( more information) Offered by Old Things (United States)
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Devil at my Heels
Zamperini, Louis
Morrow, 2003. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG+. Remainder mark on bottom textblock. /NF.. World War II memoir of Olympic runner who became a bombardier, Japanese POW and survived to forgive his camp guards. B+W photos. Heavy book may require more postage. Hardcover ( more information) Offered by Old Goat Books (Canada)
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DEVIL AT MY HEELS
Zamperini, Louis & Rensin, David
Morrow, 2003. 292pp Illus "A World War II hero's epic saga of torment, survival , and forgiveness." One corner of cover bumped.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. ( more information) Offered by Austin Book Shop (United States)
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