After an agonising delay, a young lieutenant finally bobbed to the surface and struggled aboard a life raft. So begins one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War. The lieutenant?s name was Louis Zamperini. As a boy, he turned to petty crime until he discovered a remarkable talent for running, which took him to the Berlin Olympics. But as war loomed, he joined up and was soon embroiled in the ferocious battle for the Pacific. Now...

Originally published in 1995, the autobiography of an engineer who was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942, and was set to work on the Japanese Railway of Death. Includes recollections of the experience of meeting one of his Japanese persecutors again in 1992.