UNBROKEN

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


With UNBROKEN, author Laura Hillenbrand moves in a totally different direction from her best-selling blockbuster SEABISCUIT.

A bombardier in the Army Airforce before his plane was forced to ditch in the ocean, Louie Zamperini, spent forty-six days with two other airmen on a raft fighting off sharks and subsisting on rainwater, seabirds and the occasional fish. When they finally touched land, he became a prisoner in a number of Japanese POW camps, and he met his tormenter, Mutsuhiro Watanabe. Watanabe had heard of Louie's Olympic achievements and singled him out as an object of hatred.

Louie survived. Inspirational.









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