Overview
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 planeās 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 lieutenantās name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, heād 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 manās journey into extremity, Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit.
Praise for Unbroken
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āExtraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic.āāThe Wall Street Journal
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ā[A] one-in-a-billion story . . . 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.āāNew York
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āStaggering . . . mesmerizing . . . Hillenbrandās writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so incredible, you donāt dare take your eyes off the page.āāPeople
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āA meticulous, soaring and beautifully written account of an extraordinary life.āāThe Washington Post
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āAmbitious and powerful . . . a startling narrative and an inspirational book.āāThe New York Times Book Review
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āMarvelous . . . Unbroken is wonderful twice over, for the tale it tells and for the way itās told. . . . It manages maximum velocity with no loss of subtlety.āāNewsweek
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āMoving and, yes, inspirational . . . [Laura] Hillenbrandās unforgettable book . . . deserve[s] pride of place alongside the best works of literature that chart the complications and the hard-won triumphs of so-called ordinary Americans and their extraordinary time.āāMaureen Corrigan, Fresh Air
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āHillenbrand . . . tells [this] story with cool elegance but at a thrilling sprinterās pace.āāTime
āUnbroken is too much book to hope for: a hellride of a story in the grip of the one writer who can handle it.āāChristopher McDougall, author of Born to Run
This book title, Unbroken (A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption) - 9781400064168, ISBN: 9781400064168, by Laura Hillenbrand, published by Random House Publishing Group (November 16, 2010) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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