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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.
Title: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption movie tie in By: Laura Hillenbrand Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 Vendor: Random House Inc Publication Date: 2014 | Dimensions: 8.25 X 5.5 (inches) Weight: 15 ounces ISBN: 081298711X ISBN-13: 9780812987119 UPC: 9780812987119 Stock No: WW987119 |
"Ambitious and powerful...Hillenbrand is intelligent and restrained...Her research is thorough, her writing crystalline. Unbroken is gripping in an almost cinematic way." --The New York Times Book Review
"Stirring and triumphant...Hillenbrand tells his story as a nearly continuous flow of suspense." --L.A. Times
"A one-in-a-billion story...seems designed to wrench from self-respecting critics all the blurby adjectives we normally try to avoid. It is amazing, unforgettable, gripping, harrowing, chilling, and inspiring. It sucked me in and swept me away. It kept me reading late into the night. I could not...(it really hurts me to type this)...put it...(must find the strength to resist)...down." --New York Magazine
"Zamperini's story is certainly one of the most remarkable survival tales ever recorded. What happened after that is equally remarkable. Do yourself...a favor and buy the book." --Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair
"Hillenbrand demonstrates a dazzling ability--one Seabiscuit only hinted at--to make the tale leap off the page...Irresistible." --Elle
Laura Hillenbrand is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Seabiscuit: An American Legend, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, landed on more than fifteen best-of-the-year lists, and inspired the film Seabiscuit, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Hillenbrand's New Yorker article, "A Sudden Illness," won the 2004 National Magazine Award. She and actor Gary Sinise are the co-founders of Operation International Children, a charity that provides school supplies to children through American troops.
The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in a new trade paperback tie-in edition to the upcoming major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie and written by the Coen brothers.
Growing up, Louie Zamperini was a study in defiance, but his older brother channeled Zamperini's energy into track. Within a very short time, his fierce determination took him all the way to the 1936 Olympics. Then his life, like that of his whole generation, was interrupted by Pearl Harbor. Overnight he went from athlete to Army Air Corps bombardier. And that was just the beginning of an incredible odyssey of determination and survival that forced him to draw upon every resource within himself to overcome seemingly insurmountable circumstances.
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