The Race He Finally Won

In the summer of 1936, a young American named Louis Zamperini finished the 5,000-meter race at the Berlin Olympics with such a blazing final lap that Adolf Hitler reportedly asked to meet him. But Zamperini's most important race had nothing to do with speed. Seven years later, his B-24 bomber went down over the Pacific. He survived 47 days adrift at sea before Japanese forces captured him.…