Ebook: Don't give up, don't give in: lessons from an extraordinary life
Author: Zamperini Louis
- Tags: Bomber pilots, Bomber pilots--United States, Survival, Track and field athletes, Track and field athletes--United States, World War 1939-1945, World War 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons Japanese, Biographies, Personal narratives, Zamperini Louis, Zamperini Louis -- 1917-2014, Bomber pilots -- United States -- Biography, World War 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives American, Track and field athletes -- United States -- Biography, World War 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons Japanese, United States
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- City: United States
- Language: English
- epub
New York Times bestseller
More than 100,000 copies in print
Completed just two days before Louis Zamperini's death at age ninety-seven, Don't Give Up, Don't Give In shares a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and humor from "one of the most incredible American lives of the past century" (People). Zamperini's story has touched millions through Laura Hillenbrand's biography Unbroken and its blockbuster movie adaptation directed by Angelina Jolie. Now, in his own words, Zamperini reveals with warmth and great charm the essential values and lessons that sustained him throughout his remarkable journey.
He was a youthful troublemaker from California who turned his life around to become a 1936 Olympian. Putting aside his track career, he volunteered for the army before Pearl Harbor and was thrust into World War II as a B-24 bombardier. While on a rescue mission, his plane went down in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where he survived...