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This biography of Louis Zamparini has several things to recommend it.
Laura Hillenbrand's prose has the pacing of a novel. Perhaps that's because it's the subject is a hero but was also once a world-class athlete.
This is also a story that needs to be told, that needs to be passed down to the generations for whom World War II is a subject that they cover in a couple of weeks in history class, and little more. Including my generation of Boomers, we who have grown up in the decades after VJ day do n ...more
Laura Hillenbrand's prose has the pacing of a novel. Perhaps that's because it's the subject is a hero but was also once a world-class athlete.
This is also a story that needs to be told, that needs to be passed down to the generations for whom World War II is a subject that they cover in a couple of weeks in history class, and little more. Including my generation of Boomers, we who have grown up in the decades after VJ day do n ...more
The author does a wonderful job showing the depths of cruelty people are capable of, as well as the inner strength of some when the victim of that cruelty.
I understand better now why so many Americans who lived through the War despised all things Japanese. I'm glad the author mentioned how conveniently the US government stopped its prosecution of war criminals when it was deemed necessary.
I did feel the author included so many details of Zamperini's young life almost as a possible explanation ...more
I understand better now why so many Americans who lived through the War despised all things Japanese. I'm glad the author mentioned how conveniently the US government stopped its prosecution of war criminals when it was deemed necessary.
I did feel the author included so many details of Zamperini's young life almost as a possible explanation ...more
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Cara
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