Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity suffering with hope, resolve, and humor brutality with rebellion. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft.
But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. A fascinating read for anyone who loves to read WWII history and memoirs. Hillenbrand’s superb writing brings Zamperini’s tale to life while also helping you understand the historical context.
Zamperini’s resilience will amaze you as he struggles to survive life as a Japanese prisoner for almost three years. Zamperini managed to survive on a life raft for 47 days only to be found by the Japanese. Shot down in the Pacific Ocean in 1943, Lt. Laura Hillenbrand’s bestselling book details the life of Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic runner who even shook hands with Hitler at the Berlin Olympics. Laura lives in Oregon.Audiobook Length: 13 hours and 56 minutes She and actor Gary Sinise were the co-founders of Operation International Children ( a charity that provided school supplies to needy children through American troops. Hillenbrand’s New Yorker article, “A Sudden Illness,” won the 2004 National Magazine Award, and Laura is a two-time winner of the Eclipse Award, the highest journalistic honor in thoroughbred racing. Seabiscuit was finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, won the Book Sense Nonfiction Book of the Year Award and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, landed on more than fifteen best-of-the-year lists, and inspired the film Seabiscuit, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
The book spent 42 weeks at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, in hardcover and paperback. Laura Hillenbrand is the author of the critically acclaimed Seabiscuit: An American Legend, the best-selling sports book in history.
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