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    Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life
    Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life
    Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life
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    Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life

    Written by Louis Zamperini and David Rensin

    Narrated by Arthur Morey

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    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 against all odds, drifting two thousand miles in a small raft for forty-seven days. His struggle was only beginning: Zamperini was captured by the Japanese, and for more than two years he courageously endured torture and psychological abuse in a series of prisoner-of-war camps. He returned home to face more dark hours, but in 1949 Zamperini’s life was transformed by a spiritual rebirth that would guide him through the next sixty-five years of his long and happy life. Louis Zamperini’s Don’t Give Up, Don’t Give In is an extraordinary last testament that captures the wisdom of a life lived to the fullest.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateNov 18, 2014
    ISBN9780062387417
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    Louis Zamperini

    A son of Italian immigrants, Louis Zamperini (1917-2014) was a U.S. Olympic runner, World War II bombardier, and POW survivor. After the war, he returned to the United States to found the Victory Boys Camp for at-risk youth and became an inspirational speaker. Zamperini's story was told in his 2003 autobiography Devil at My Heels, as well as in Laura Hillenbrand's 2010 biography Unbroken.

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    • 5/5
      Amazing life he had but inspirational for anyone at any age of their life. The title says it all but a book worth encountering.
    • 5/5
      Really inspirational, very enjoyable listening experience. So full of wisdom and insight!
    • 4/5
      I read Unbroken so I was interested in learning more about Louis Zamperini. It was an interesting story but not as thrilling as Unbroken.
    • 4/5
      This book is full of "proverbs", each accompanied with a short story from Louis Zamperini's life. I got to know him just a little more, a little better than I had previously, from reading "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption". A sweet, fun, and interesting little book.