Subtitled “A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, this book is the story of Louis Zamperini, a man whose saga sounds so far-fetched that it’s hard to believe it actually happened. Zamperini was a troubled youth who discovered running and eventually competed for the US in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He later joined the Air Force and was aboard a B-24 bomber that was shot down in the Pacific Ocean. He and another crewman endured 40+ days adrift at sea before being “saved” and taken to a Japanese prison camp in the Marshall Islands. There, he and the other prisoners were starved and beaten until the end of WWII.
The book is incredible and I found myself opening it with any spare minute I had. It renewed my sense of patriotism and hardened my resolve towards any struggles I encountered in my day-to-day life.
I can’t say enough great things about this book. At 530 pages or 14 hours, it’s a bit long but you’ll wish it was even longer.
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