{"product_id":"devil-at-my-heels-a-heroic-olympians-astonishing-story-of-survival-as-a-japanese-pow-in-world-war-ii-0060934212-used","title":"Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0060934212\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Zamperini, Louis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \"inspirational\" and \"extraordinary\" memoir of one of the most courageous of the greatest generation, Louis Zamperini: Olympian, WWII Japanese POW and survivor.A juvenile delinquent, a world class NCAA miler, a 1936 Olympian, a WWII bombardier: Louis Zamperini had a 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 spotted land-and were captured by the Japanese. Thus began more than two years of torture and humiliation as a prisoner of war.Zamperini was threatened with beheading, subject to medical experiments, routinely beaten, hidden in a secret interrogation facility, starved and forced into slave labour, 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 sends official condolences to his family, who never gave up hope that he was alive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52340109345056,"sku":"USED0060934212","price":33.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91CnU1sBemL_3b152d9e-d3ed-45c8-9a16-dd0a269966d4.jpg?v=1789131221","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/devil-at-my-heels-a-heroic-olympians-astonishing-story-of-survival-as-a-japanese-pow-in-world-war-ii-0060934212-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}