Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival Resilience and Redemption

On a May afternoon in 1943 an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil gasoline and blood.  Then on the ocean surface a face appeared.  It was that of a young lieutenant the plane’s bombardier who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard.  So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.

The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini.  In boyhood he’d been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent breaking into houses brawling and fleeing his home to ride the rails.  As a teenager he had channeled his defiance into running discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile.  But when war had come the athlete had become an airman embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight a tiny raft and a drift into the unknown.

Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean leaping sharks a foundering raft thirst and starvation enemy aircraft and beyond a trial even greater.  Driven to the limits of endurance Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope resolve and humor; brutality with rebellion.  His fate whether triumph or tragedy would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.

In her long-awaited new book Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in Seabiscuit.  Telling an unforgettable story of a man’s journey into extremity Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind body and spirit.

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