Unbroken

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Paperback – July 29, 2014

Author: Visit Amazon’s Laura Hillenbrand Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0812974492 | Format: PDF, EPUB

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption – July 29, 2014
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• Paperback: 528 pages


• Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition (July 29, 2014)


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 0812974492


• ISBN-13: 978-0812974492


• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 1.1 x 8.2 inches


• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)


• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  
  • #2 in Books > history > Military > United States
  
  
  • #2 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Leaders & Notable People > Military > World War II
  
  
  • #2 in Books > Sports & Outdoors
  
  

I read this book in two days flat and I know that, had I had the time, I would have read it in one sitting. This is a book that grips you, draws you in and leaves you feeling a slightly better person for having read it.

The story is that of Louie Zamperini – a track and field star of the 1930’s, who participated in the Berlin olympics, was part of the US air force in WWII, was shot down over the ocean, was adrift in the Pacific for over a month, was held as a POW by the Japanese forces and finally made it back to his life and has had the courage to live it to its fullest.

Hillenbrand is a marvellous author. I was never tempted to read Seabiscuit and this was my first introduction to her work. She is one of a few authors who can write a non fiction story in the most gripping and vivid way imaginable. Instead of being flowery or overly embellished her prose relies squarely on research and on witness accounts and yet manages to never be dull. The swiftly moving story takes the reader from Zamperini’s early beginnings, his swift rise to track star, the Berlin olympics and then to the World War. This is where the story really blooms. Hillenbrand settles in for the long haul here and we get to see the air force and the B24 bombers through the words of the men who actually flew them. The sequences where Zamperini and his friend Phil are adrift at sea are vivid and strangely beautifully described. The horrors that await them at the Japanese prison camps are not glossed over but neither does Hillenbrand wallow in the gore and violence as some authors may be tempted to do. There is always a strong sense of the respect the author holds for the men whose story she is being allowed to tell.

Louis Zamperini? Who is he? Laura Hillenbrand’s near 500-page reply will answer the question not only once, but for all. He is the California boy who was a kleptomaniac. He is the running prodigy who competed at Hitler’s Berlin Olympics, shook hands with the Fuhrer, and was almost shot by Nazi guards for stealing a Nazi souvenir. He is the American serviceman who entered the Pacific theater, crashed into the sea, and spent a harrowing forty-odd days floating on a disintegrating raft circled by aggressive sharks, scorched by a relentless sun, and gnawed to the bone by an inescapable hunger.

Who is Louis Zamperini? He is a man who overcame all THAT only to be “rescued” by the wrong side — the Japanese. He is the man who went from being a prisoner of starvation and sharks that actually leaped up and tried to snatch him out of the foundering raft to being a prisoner of Japanese guards who were every bit as predatory as the great white of the seas. He is the man who was beaten every day by a particular Japanese corporal named Mutsuhiro Watanabe, a.k.a. “the Bird.” He is, in short, the Unbroken One — the man who kept getting up, coming back, rebounding, and holding on to the tenuous thread that connected him with life and hope, past any duration that any of us could possibly imagine. And, as YOU can imagine, his story is compelling. In fact, in the capable hands of Laura Hillenbrand, author of SEABISCUIT, it reads like a thriller, a page-turner, a fictional product of a keenly talented mind — proving once again that truth can trump fiction when it comes to stories and mankind’s love of hearing them.

When you reach the end of this man’s incredible journey, you will be awed by the scope of Hillenbrand’s writing.

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