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Name: Devil at my heels
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Louis Zamperini

A former POW recounts his athletic southern California childhood, participation in the 1936 Olympics, imprisonment and torture by an abusive Japanese guard, descent into alcoholism, and salvation by preacher Billy Graham.

First publish date: 1956

Authors: Louis Zamperini

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