Don't Give Up, Don't Give In
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- Titel: Don't Give Up, Don't Give In : Lessons from an Extraordinary Life / Louis Zamperini
- Person(en): Zamperini, Louis
- Sprache: Englisch
- Originalsprache: Englisch
- Umfang: 1 online resource
- Erschienen: 2014
- ISBN/Preis: 9780062368812 (electronic bk)
- Schlagwörter: Nonfiction ; Biography & Autobiography ; Self-Improvement ; Electronic books
- Link(s): http://elibraryhh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=11B51C44-A59C-4624-88EB-5FA2FFF3E728 Excerpt
Inhalt: New York Times bestsellerMore than 100,000 copies in printCompleted 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...
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