Because I liked The Tender Bar so very much, I looked it up at the Kindle Store to see  what other people who read it had also purchased.

And I found this title: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption.

I coughed up the money for this book because I could not turn away from it. I knew it would be well-written and I couldn’t help but feel I owed it to the man who was the subject of Laura Hillenbrand’s interest.
Hillenbrand wrote Seabiscuit: An American Legend and says when she was compiling the material for that book, kept hearing stories of a man named Louie. She looked him up, listened to his story and wrote about him.
It seems to be this is going to be the story of another champion and I imagine I will eventually be looking around for a secondhand print copy because it will be special to me.
You can read her summary of the book HERE, about half-way now the page. Below is an excerpt from Publishers Weekly that nutshells everything.

The young Italian-American from Torrance, Calif., was expected to be the first to run a four-minute mile. After an astonishing but losing race at the 1936 Olympics, Louie was hoping for gold in the 1940 games. But war ended those dreams forever. In May 1943 his B-24 crashed into the Pacific. After a record-breaking 47 days adrift on a shark-encircled life raft with his pal and pilot, Russell Allen “Phil” Phillips, they were captured by the Japanese. In the “theater of cruelty” that was the Japanese POW camp network, Louie landed in the cruelest theaters of all: Omori and Naoetsu, under the control of Corp. Mutsuhiro Watanabe, a pathologically brutal sadist (called the Bird by camp inmates) who never killed his victims outright–his pleasure came from their slow, unending torment.