What happened after that is equally remarkable. “Zamperini’s story is certainly one of the most remarkable survival tales ever recorded. It manages maximum velocity with no loss of subtlety.
Unbroken is wonderful twice over, for the tale it tells and for the way it’s told.
Louis Post DispatchĮxtraordinarily moving. Zamperini’s life is one of courage, heroism, humility and unflagging endurance. tells story with cool elegance but at a thrilling sprinter’s pace. Hillenbrand’s writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so incredible, you don’t dare take your eyes off the page. Made into an award-winning Oscar-nominated film in 2014 by director Angelina Jolie, Unbroken is an unforgettable testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit, brought vividly to life by author Laura Hillenbrand. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity suffering with hope, resolve, and humor brutality with rebellion.
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Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. This book honors our WWII veterans with dignity and I was glad my book club chose this book.
I can only imagine what it was like to be faced with the horrible atrocities of war. "I really liked this book because it captured the mood of the WWII era. Unbroken tells the extraordinary tale of a man's odyssey into extremity, and stands testament to the power of human resilience. In Time's top book of 2010 and #1 New York Times bestseller, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, Laura Hillenbrand employs the same eye jeweler's eye for detail and vivid, rich narrative voice that she displayed in her acclaimed 2001 bestseller, Seabiscuit. His very survival depended on his eroding resolve. Pushed to the limit of his considerable endurance, he met desperation with resourcefulness, brutality with defiance, hardship with brave determination. Zamperini faced starvation, thirst, enemy aircraft and jumping sharks. With the arrival of World War II, he became a pilot and began the journey that would lead him to his ill-fated flight and set him adrift at sea on a tiny life raft. When he harnessed his energy into running, he discovered a dormant talent that took him all the way to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. As a boy, he had been a crafty and unapologetic hooligan, burglarizing houses, and leaving home to ride the rails. One of the most remarkable journeys of World War II was about to begin. It was the plane's bombardier, a young lieutenant, struggling to pull himself aboard a life raft. On a spring afternoon in 1943, a US Army Air Forces bomber crash landed and disappeared into the Pacific Ocean, leaving only fragments of the plane visible on the surface, along with gasoline, oil and blood.
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