Product Description: Kang Hang was a Korean scholar-official taken prisoner in 1597 by an invading Japanese army during the Imjin War of 1592–1598. While in captivity in Japan, Kang recorded his thoughts on human civilization, war, and the enemy's culture and society, acting in effect as a spy for his king...read more

In Laura Hillenbrand’s #1 New York Times bestseller and its 2014 film adaptation, UNBROKEN, the remarkable story of Louis Zamperini’s struggle to survive the unimaginable instantly granted him status as one of our country’s greatest heroes.Now, in DON’T GIVE UP, DON’T GIVE IN, Zamperini himself opens up to share the wisdom he has collected along his incredible journey. After his plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean during World War II, leaving him stranded at sea for 47 harrowing days, Louis Zamperini was finally rescued—only to spend the next two years in a brutal Japanese prisoner of war camp. Faced with one misfortune after another, Zamperini could have given up a thousand times. Instead he chose to turn every hardship into a challenge—and a challenge he would overcome. Even after the perils of World War II were well behind him, Zamperini continued to find adventure at every turn—from crashing weddings, to standing up to Frank Sinatra in a fight, to getting mixed up in a bank robbery. Today, at 97 years old, he’s happy, sharp-minded, and healthy. His secrets of success are simple, yet essential. In DON’T GIVE UP, DON’T GIVE IN, he teaches us how his relationship with God, his ever-positive attitude, his constant pursuit of accomplishment—and a healthy dose of mischief—have helped him lead the long and fulfilled life he looks back on today.

Product Description: David Piper studied Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge from 1937-1940. He was then sent to join the Indian Army, trained at Bangalore as an officer, and went to fight the Japanese in Malaya. From February 1942 -- September 1945 he was in Japanese prison camps and the writings in this book reflect his thoughts on the experience at different stages in his life...read more

Product Description: Viewed through a prism of wonder and enlightenment, Weldon Hamilton's telling of his story gives new meaning to the word, unique. His refusal to damn his captors for the horrors they inflicted; to travel as an observer of himself and the fallen to the end of their together journey; to remain the boy from Kansas destined to experience the ultimate adventure thrust upon him for unknown reasons by unknown forces, is truly UNIQUE...read more