•Zamperini’s story of courage and resilience is so extraordinary that Lauren Hillebrand, author of Seabiscuit, made it the subject of her acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller, Unbroken.
•Senator John McCain’s moving foreword discusses the similarities of the lessons both he and Zamperini learned in war. He writes, “Louis Zamperini’s life is a story that befits the greatness of the country he served…What he found, beyond the horror of the prison camps and the ghosts he carried home with him, is inspiring.”
•In a new afterword, Louis Zamperini, now 94 years old, provides an update on his life since the publication of Lauren Hillenbrand’s massively successful biography Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. Unbroken was a #1 New York Times bestseller and was named the top book of 2010 by Time magazine.
•This new trade paperback edition of Devil at My Heels replaces the trade paperback edition ISBN 9780060934217.
 
 

Athletically gifted, Louis Zamperini propelled himself from the tough streets of Southern California to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and to an NCAA mile record at USC that stood for 20 years. When war came he left the track for a B-24—a move that would have heartbreaking consequences. On a routine mission his plane crashed into the shark-infested Pacific and he would drift 2,000 miles for 47 days before being found by the Japanese. As a prisoner of war, Zamperini endured two years of horrible torture and humiliation at the hands of a psychopathic guard nicknamed “The Bird.” Yet Zamperini endured and returned home a hero.

Unfortunately, the terrible memory of his experiences haunted him. Zamperini turned to alcohol and spiraled into the depths of despair until a young preacher named Billy Graham helped him rediscover the faith that would eventually lead him to return to Japan and personally forgive all his now-imprisoned captors. Moving and unforgettable, terrifying and inspirational, Devil At My Heels is not to be missed.