Devil at My Heels: A WW II Hero's Epic Saga of Torment, Survival, and Forgiveness
By Unknown Author.
Description
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 d...
ISBN(s)
006018860x, 9780060188603, 9780062393333
