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Sto caricando le informazioni... Sopravvissuto: la vita dell'atleta olimpionico, eroe di guerra e sopravvissuto alla prigionia giapponese (2003)di Louis Zamperini
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Louis’ story in his own words, which puts a different emphasis on the story than you get in Unbroken. I found a bit too much self love in some parts, but he’s been telling and selling his story for years so maybe that can’t be helped. And he balances it out with some brutally honest parts that cast him in a very poor light. And in the end, he lays it all out at the feet of the lord so he doesn’t actually take sole credit for his accomplishments. Quite the story. ( ) A story of heroism and survival I loved this book and not just because I loved this man. Louie was my Sunday School teacher with Jim Ferguson when I was in junior hi and hi school and used to ride herd on us at the beach all summer. I heard a lot of these stories first hand and some others that aren't. I will always be grateful I had him as a role model growing up. Rest well, Louie, thou good and faithful servant. The book tells of unimaginable horrors, the bad deeds he did and what he survived. He was humble, sincere and could be really annoying about using sunscreen. Read the book and follow his journey. You will be better for it nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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