Zamparini Louis (Louie in the text) is a kid when this story begins. It's a tough kid, some might say a hooligan, others a scoundrel, he makes the four hundred shots, but pampered by his mother, his father, his older brother and two sisters, and it will continue up to 13 years . There, in 1930, he heard about the eugenic laws and the few cases that we will make kids like him that we sterilize necessary. It is already a consciousness but his brother PETE that will impose a College Director by requiring that he can participate in various trainings and sports competitions between schools. Subsequently it is known more these are the exploits that will bring the young Louie to attend Olympics in 1936 where he BERLIN 8é end of 5000 Meters and will have the same right to the Fuhrer congratulations after a dizzying ascent. From then he acquired a taste for records it connects. But alas it will be stopped in his ascent by the war with Japan. No Olympics in TOKYO in 1940 and no more in HELSINKI. In 1941 he enlisted in the Air Force and actively participates in the bombing. His device will one day riddled with bullets but most of the team will be saved.
Unfortunately luck changes and one day, in an accident, the device falls into the sea, only three survivors will drift for forty four days in the Pacific, on a tire in a shark-infested ocean without fresh water (a little from time to time rain) and without food (a few birds caught in flight). Finally he was taken prisoner of the Japanese Phil driver (Mac had died at the end of wandering) and will undergo during two years of humiliation, hunger, thirst, that reserve at the time the Japanese soldiers and prisoners to the Americans particularly sadistic guard named WATANABE ... To say more is useless but know that this man born in 1917 is still alive today (1). The author has inserted a set of pictures (family, exploits, military) in the middle of work that materialize this story. The many thanks endnotes are there to attest that the author has made next to interviews conducted an important research work. Truly a very, very good book.
(1) Louie Zamparini died on 07.03.2014.
Edited on 08/02/2014 to reflect this fact obviously unknown at the time of the comment.
