The hero is now 92-year-old Luis Zamperini (Louis Zan Bei Lini), a descendant of the first generation of Italian immigrants in California, an energetic but useless little boy, an athlete who won the eighth place in the 5000m race at the 1939 Berlin Olympic Games and shook hands with Hitler.

A life that should have been calm or brilliant joined the US Air Force under the horn of war.

194 1 year1February 7, 945-1September 2, 945, during the Second World War, the US military and its allies fought a large-scale military war with the Japanese in the Asia-Pacific theater, also known as the Pacific War. As the main battlefield of World War II, this is a big collision between the warring sides in the widest sea area in the world. The Pacific War started with Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and ended with Japan's surrender. As many as 37 countries participated in the war, involving a population of over1500 million. The warring parties mobilized more than 60 million troops, which lasted for three years and several months. It is difficult to count casualties and losses.

Flying a B-24 fighter in the Coral Sea and Midway Island, Louis Zan Bei Lini grew into an excellent air force soldier in the dive battle with the Japanese Zero fighter. However, the wonderful fate did not let him continue to fly on the battlefield, but threw him into an air crash in a search and rescue mission.

Three members climbed the life raft scarred by oily seawater, floated on the sea for 47 days under the chase of sharks, endured thirst and hunger in the scorching sun, and saw hope and despair repeatedly!

He, Phil and Mike are floating on a life raft at sea. On the raft with almost no life-saving equipment, they are in despair almost all the time. Their bodies are suffering from no food, no water, no exposure or heavy rain all the time, and they never know when they will be saved spiritually. In this case, Louis and Phil's optimism saved them. Although they are facing the most difficult situation, they are always thinking about their life after being rescued. They never despair, but face all hardships. Louis (played by Louis Zan Bei Lini) and his comrades face the approaching of death again and again with wisdom and faith. A thrilling story is that in the endless sea life, three people formed a routine, that is, listening to Louis describe in detail what ingredients his mother used to cook steaming food in the kitchen every night. It is under the support of this "imaginary food" that several men insist on eating raw seabirds, marine fish and meat.

In contrast, another comrade-in-arms Mike is different from them. The book wrote: "Although they face the same dilemma, their different attitudes determine their different fates. Louis and Phil used hope instead of fear and persisted in trying to survive. Every victory increased their physical and psychological strength. Mike's shrinking mood seems to overwhelm him. The less willing he is to take part in it, the weaker his will becomes. So although he has the least activity, his physical fitness is the fastest as time goes by. Whether it is the optimism of Louis and Phil or the depression of Mike, it is actually a self-realization process. "

The original book wrote: "Louis Zan Bei Lini woke up from his dream in the morning and found that the world was strangely quiet, and the sea was so calm, as if it were a land where human beings could walk. There is not a breath of wind. The life raft, the sea and the world seem to have solidified in the painting. When the fish in the distance jump out of the sea, you can clearly hear the splash of seawater. Hunger, thirst and fear of death seem to evaporate from the body in an instant. At that moment, all I left in my heart was joy, gratitude and peace ... "

War is ruthless. As an ordinary soldier, Louis Zan Bei Lini will face all kinds of death threats, such as being attacked, destroyed, plane crash, desperate drifting after the crash, and he will lose his life at any time. Of all these terrible misfortunes, the last thing they want is to be captured by the Japanese army, because the Japanese atrocities in Nanjing shocked the whole world. The experience of American prisoners of war in the Pacific has also reached their ears, so in their view, being captured is the bottom of hell. A B-24 was seriously damaged over the Japanese army, and only one of all the crew members chose to skydive. Others would rather be destroyed by planes, because their fate after being captured is chilling. Unfortunately, Zan Bei Lini will face such a hell.

After that, the very lengthy part is the dark and twisted prison life I experienced as a prisoner of war (POW) after being captured by the Japanese army. During this period, he was detained in four Japanese prison camps, and was beaten and abused by the Japanese who distorted human nature in the war. Survived more than 700 days and nights of physical and mental torture. The hero's experience is a bit like that of George H.W. Bush. At the same time, he was shot down and rescued by a Japanese plane in the Pacific War, but he was not as lucky as George H.W. Bush to become a prisoner of war instead of a war hero, from which he experienced a life experience that ordinary people could not experience.

There are relevant provisions on prisoners of war in the Geneva Convention, but the Japanese army, which is famous for its cruelty, has not implemented them. In their view, the captured prisoners of war are all slaves. The Japanese government signed contracts with private companies to send these people to factories, coal mines and docks for free. There, prisoners of war were forced to engage in very difficult military production or material transportation, and people always waved batons. They have also become tools for some abnormal Japanese troops to vent their anger. Thousands of prisoners of war died in this kind of work and were tortured before they died. Zan Bei Lini was in Omori prison camp, which is also a famous slave camp. He had to face slavery, disease, hunger and abnormal Japanese abuse. However, he persisted. Missing his family and yearning for life kept him from giving up. He survived in an extremely difficult environment, and in the case of extreme mental destruction, he has adjusted himself with indestructible will, led a relatively normal life, and was able to tell his experiences rationally.

In particular, one of the warders named Byrd became a nightmare in Louis' later nightmares. Finally, as a war criminal of World War II, Bird escaped from the police and remained anonymous for decades. His story is also a highlight in the book. It was not until his later years that Byrd decided to publicly apologize to the prisoners of World War II. At this time, Louis was already a devout Christian, and he had already melted his hatred for Byrd into inner sympathy and forgiveness.

After being rescued at the end of World War II, the returning Jedi soldier Louis Zan Bei Lini was caught in the shadow of war. The war is over, and hatred cannot pass. Life is getting better, but spirit is not getting better. Life was almost destroyed by resentment, but he spent 1800 days on the road of redemption with indestructible will, and finally came out of the damage caused by the war and became a happy and long-lived old man. The legendary life of the 94-year-old man shows the value of his indomitable will in the face of ill-fated, and his bloody accusation against the cruel war.

After Louis was finally rescued, someone asked him how he survived. His answer is: I knew it would be so painful, so I committed suicide.

This is a truth. What can support a person to go on is a wish that "tomorrow will be better". If you "know" or think that tomorrow will be worse, then many people may choose to commit suicide. For Louis, he didn't need to commit suicide when he was at sea, because at that time, "death was the least urgent thing" for him, and he was always threatened by death. But this is not the case in Japanese prison camps. Louis is beaten every day, and his body and mind are greatly tested. He will never die. If he doesn't die and float on the sea, he will reach the shore one day, but in the Japanese prison camp, the only thing he can hope for is victory, but if he wins, they are likely to be slaughtered by the Japanese. Louis was beaten day after day. For him, living to tomorrow means another day of beating, and living to next week means another seven days of beating.