
A gripping true story of human endurance & the resilience of one remarkable individual during WWII from Laura Hillenbrand (author of ` Seabiscuit`). 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 & struggled aboard a life raft. So begins 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 & 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 & the enemy. Driven to limits of endurance, Zamperini`s fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would depend on the strength of his will...