Survival and Redemption

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Books by Jeff Jay. Trivia About Navigating Grace No trivia or quizzes yet. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared.

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It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. Get Spirit-filled content delivered right to your inbox! Click here to subscribe to our newsletter. We caught up with Mr.

Zamperini by phone a few weeks ago to talk about his June 10 book signing at the Billy Graham Library, and how God is using Unbroken to touch lives around the world. Zamperini's story began in Torrance, Calif. The child of Italian immigrants often found himself in trouble with the authorities—until a police officer suggested that the high-spirited boy use his gift of "fleeing" for sport instead of mischief. By the end of high school, he had become a world class runner, setting a world high school record in the mile. He qualified to run on the Olympic team by tying the world record holder in the 5,meter race.

During the Berlin Olympics, Zamperini was America's top finisher in the event, covering the final lap in an astounding 56 seconds. Following the Games, he enrolled and competed for the University of Southern California on national record-breaking teams. Many said Zamperini would have broken the four-minute mile had he not retired from the sport to join the U.

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On a routine reconnaissance run, his aircraft crashed into the Pacific Ocean, and Zamperini and another crew member survived in a life raft for 47 days, drifting 2, miles, into Japanese controlled waters. His rescuers were also his torturers, as the Japanese put Zamperini into a series of prison camps. One particular guard wanted to make an example of the eternally optimistic Olympic runner, and for two years the guard tried to break Zamperini's spirit with verbal and physical cruelty.

But the feisty young man outlasted the guard, and when the war ended Zamperini returned to Torrance to a hero's welcome. He partied with celebrities and married a debutante, but his life soon spiraled out of control—until that day. The year was ; the city Los Angeles. Zamperini was adrift and struggling with alcoholism and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

His wife, Cynthia, was ready to slap him with divorce papers, but neighbors convinced the young woman to listen to the bold evangelist preaching in a big tent outside downtown Los Angeles. Zamperini accepted Christ that night and told her husband that because of her conversion, she wouldn't file for divorce.

But, she wanted Louis to accompany her to the Crusade. I'd always been poisoned against such tent meetings since I was a youngster. In Unbroken , Hillenbrand paints a vivid picture of what happened when Zamperini walked into the Billy Graham Crusade, and even included portions of the sermon he heard.

The chapter is an answer to prayer, says Zamperini. Then she called me and told me she talked to Billy Graham and got a hold of Cliff Barrows. She wanted to include the sermon I heard, and they sent it to her. Zamperini is thankful for Hillenbrand's persistence and thoroughness.

He describes her as an amazing researcher. Unbroken is really a history book, says Zamperini. While secular audiences are eating up Hillenbrand's captivating descriptions of Zamperini's track career, World War II experience and the horrifying prisoner-of-war account, Christians are finding fresh inspiration in the pages of Unbroken. I write them back and share Scriptures with them. He describes a letter he received from a man who was fired from his job: He hated the man.