{"product_id":"devil-at-my-heels-a-heroic-olympians-astonishing-story-of-survival-as-a-japanese-pow-in-world-war-ii-9780060934217","title":"Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II","description":"\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 B24 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 fortyseven days. Their only food: two shark livers and three raw albatross. Their only water: sporadic rainfall. Their only companions: hope and faithand the everpresent sharks. On the fortyseventh day  mere skeletons close to death  Zamperini and pilot Russell Phillips spotted landand 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 Birda 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":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118270963765,"sku":"ByrdShop_0060934212","price":23.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780060934217.jpg?v=1781712798","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/devil-at-my-heels-a-heroic-olympians-astonishing-story-of-survival-as-a-japanese-pow-in-world-war-ii-9780060934217","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}