Skip to content

Devil at My Heels: A WW II Hero's Epic Saga of Torment, Survival, and Forgiveness

Devil at My Heels: A WW II Hero's Epic Saga of Torment, Survival, and Forgiveness

Devil at My Heels: A WW II Hero's Epic Saga of Torment, Survival, and
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

Devil at My Heels: A WW II Hero's Epic Saga of Torment, Survival, and Forgiveness

by Zamperini;, Louis; David Rensin

  • Used
  • as new
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
As New/As New
ISBN 10
006018860X
ISBN 13
9780060188603
Seller
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
New Port Richey, Florida, United States
Item Price
NZ$126.69
Or just NZ$114.02 with a
Bibliophiles Club Membership
NZ$8.45 Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 7 to 14 days

More Shipping Options

Payment Methods Accepted

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Discover
  • PayPal

About This Item

William Morrow, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. (1st edition, 1st printing) Larger sturdy book, purple spine, red boards, very bright silver lettering on spine, a map of wartime journeys of Zamperini inside covers and adjacent end papers, 292 pages including a glossy photo section of Olympic hero who survived ditching at sea and Japanese torture. DJ beneath mylar, a glossy white background, a photo of young captainon front and an aircraft, water illustrated on front, spine and back, praise from James Bradley, Billy Graham on back. DJ and book, both As New.

Synopsis

The "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 B — 24 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 forty — seven days. Their only food: two shark livers and three raw albatross. Their only water: sporadic rainfall. Their only companions: hope and faith — and the ever — present sharks. On the forty — seventh day, mere skeletons close to death, Zamperini and pilot Russell Phillips spotted land — and 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 Bird — a 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. Somehow, Zamperini survived and he returned home a hero. The celebration was short — lived. He plunged into drinking and brawling and the depths of rage and despair. Nightly, the Bird's face leered at him in his dreams. It would take years, but with the love of his wife and the power of faith, he was able to stop the nightmares and the drinking. A stirring memoir from one of the greatest of the "Greatest Generation," DEVIL AT MY HEELS is a living document about the brutality of war, the tenacity of the human spirit, and the power of forgiveness.

Reviews

(Log in or Create an Account first!)

You’re rating the book as a work, not the seller or the specific copy you purchased!

Details

Bookseller
Callaghan Books South US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
56858
Title
Devil at My Heels: A WW II Hero's Epic Saga of Torment, Survival, and Forgiveness
Author
Zamperini;, Louis; David Rensin
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
New As New
Jacket Condition
As New
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
006018860X
ISBN 13
9780060188603
Publisher
William Morrow
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2003
Keywords
Olympics WWII POW Japanese Prison Camps
Bookseller catalogs
World War II; Sport;

Terms of Sale

Callaghan Books South

Books may be returned with 5 days for full refund--in same condition as sent.

About the Seller

Callaghan Books South

Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Biblio member since 2004
New Port Richey, Florida

About Callaghan Books South

An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.

Glossary

Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
New
A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
First Edition
In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...

Frequently asked questions

This Book’s Categories

tracking-