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

Unbroken is the story of Louis Zamperini, a nameI’d never heard before I read his obituary.(Neither had Oscar, and he knows everything there is to know about sports.)

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Louis Zamperini died recently, at the age of 97. He was a juvenile delinquent, an unlikely Olympianwho appeared at the 1936 Berlin Olympics where he met Hitler, a bombardier on a B-24 fighting against the Japaneseafter Pearl Harbor. His plane was shot down. He and the pilot survived 47 days in a life raft without...