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Timed to the release of Angelina Jolie s blockbuster film adaptation of the multi-million-copy-bestseller UNBROKEN, an inspirational new book by American hero Louis Zamperini, collecting his wisdom, values, lessons, secrets, and other insights gleaned from his remarkable life.
In Laura Hillenbrand s #1 New York Times bestseller and its 2014 film adaptation, UNBROKEN, the remarkable story of Louis Zamperini s struggle to survive the unimaginable instantly granted him status as one of our country s greatest heroes.Now, in DON T GIVE UP, DON T GIVE IN, Zamperini himself opens up to share the wisdom he has collected along his incredible journey.
After his plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean during World War II, leaving him stranded at sea for 47 harrowing days, Louis Zamperini was finally rescued only to spend the next two years in a brutal Japanese prisoner of war camp. Faced with one misfortune after another, Zamperini could have given up a thousand times. Instead he chose to turn every hardship into a challenge and a challenge he would overcome. Even after the perils of World War II were well behind him, Zamperini continued to find adventure at every turn from crashing weddings, to standing up to Frank Sinatra in a fight, to getting mixed up in a bank robbery. Today, at 97 years old, he s happy, sharp-minded, and healthy. His secrets of success are simple, yet essential. In DON T GIVE UP, DON T GIVE IN, he teaches us how his relationship with God, his ever-positive attitude, his constant pursuit of accomplishment and a healthy dose of mischief have helped him lead the long and fulfilled life he looks back on today.
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A son of Italian immigrants, Louis Zamperini got his first taste of fame when he set the world high school record in the mile run. At the age of 19 he qualified to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics by tying the world record holder in the 5000 meter run; he placed eighth at the Olympics. In 1938, he set the national collegiate mile record while attending USC. He was primed to be one of the favorites to win at the 1940 Olympics in Tokyo, but it was cancelled due to the start of WWII. At the peak of his career, Zamperini left the world of sports to fight for his country as a bombardier in the U.S. Army Air Forces. When his B-24 crashed over the Pacific Ocean in 1943, he was stranded at sea for 47 days, only to be captured by the Japanese and held as a prisoner of war for over two years. After surviving the unthinkable, he returned to the United States to found the Victory Boys Camp for wayward youth and to work as an inspirational speaker around the world. He has been the subject not only of his own autobiography, DEVIL AT MY HEELS, but also of the multi-million-copy bestselling biography UNBROKEN by Laura Hillenbrand and its 2014 film adaptation directed by Angelina Jolie. Now 97 years old, he lives in California.
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