| Front Cover |
Book Details |
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| Genre |
Non-Fiction |
| Subject |
Long-distance runners - United States - Biography; Prisoners of war - Japan - Biography; Prisoners of war - United States - Biography; United States. Army Air Forces. Heavy Bombardment Group, 307th; World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Pacific; World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese; Zamperini, Louis, 1917- |
| Publication Date |
2010 |
| Format |
Hardcover |
| Publisher |
Random House |
| Extras |
Dust Jacket; Dust Jacket Cover |
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| Personal Details |
| Store |
History Book Club |
| Purchase Price |
$10.80 |
| Rating |
0 |
| Links |
Library of Congress
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| Loaned To |
Robert Hill |
| Loan Date |
2011122212/22/2011 |
| Overdue |
No |
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| Product Details |
| LoC Classification |
D805.J3 .Z364 2010 |
| Dewey |
940.54/7252092 |
| ISBN |
9781400064168 |
| Edition |
[1st ed.] |
| Cover Price |
$27.00 |
| First Edition |
Yes |
| Rare |
No |
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| Notes/Review |
One of the first lessons learned in creative writing is that there are three basic kinds of conflict: man vs. man, man vs. nature, and man vs. himself. This story has large portions of all three. Man vs. nature when Zamperini and the other survivors were adrift in a rubber raft in the vast ocean. Man vs. himself as he struggled to maintain sanity in that raft. Man vs. man when facing the depredations of life as a POW under the Japanese boot. The book runs the gamut of human emotion.
The only shortfall, and it is minor, is the lack of a bibliography. It is well end-noted, but I've come to appreciate a nice bibliography that might point me to other worthwhile books without having to dig through 50 pages of end notes.
Highly recommended. |
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