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| 'One of the most remarkable survival tales ever recorded.
I Do yourself a favor and buy the book' VANITY FM
On a May afternoon in 1943, a US bomber crashed into the
Pacific Ocean. After an agonising delay, a young lieutenant
finally bobbed to the surface and struggled aboard a life raft.
So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the
Second World War.
The lieutenant s name was Louis Zamperini. As a boy, he
turned to petty crime until he discovered a remarkable talent
for running, which took him to the Berlin Olympics. But as war
loomed, he joined up and was soon embroiled in the ferocious
battle for the Pacific.
Now Zamperini faced a journey of thousands of miles of open
ocean on a failing raft, dogged by sharks, starvation and the
enemy. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini s fate,
whether triumph or tragedy, would depend on the strength
of his will
Tremendous Hillenbrand must be congratulated for chiselling out
such an uplifting story' DAILY...
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Fülszöveg
| 'One of the most remarkable survival tales ever recorded.
I Do yourself a favor and buy the book' VANITY FM
On a May afternoon in 1943, a US bomber crashed into the
Pacific Ocean. After an agonising delay, a young lieutenant
finally bobbed to the surface and struggled aboard a life raft.
So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the
Second World War.
The lieutenant s name was Louis Zamperini. As a boy, he
turned to petty crime until he discovered a remarkable talent
for running, which took him to the Berlin Olympics. But as war
loomed, he joined up and was soon embroiled in the ferocious
battle for the Pacific.
Now Zamperini faced a journey of thousands of miles of open
ocean on a failing raft, dogged by sharks, starvation and the
enemy. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini s fate,
whether triumph or tragedy, would depend on the strength
of his will
Tremendous Hillenbrand must be congratulated for chiselling out
such an uplifting story' DAILY TELEGRAPH
% massive bestseller so colourful it reads like fiction, and so
agonising and uplifting it must surely be the most powerful story
of prison endurance since PapiM MAIL ON SUNDAY
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