Unbroken
by Laura Hillenbrand
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In boyhood, Louis Zamperini had been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he channelled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war called the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight, a tiny raft, and thousands of miles of open ocean. Adrift on the foundering raft, Zamperini would face sharks, thirst and starvation and enemy aircraft. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity.
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Prisoners of war, Prisoners and prisons, American Aerial operations, Aerial operations, World War, 1939-1945, Long-distance runners, Olympic athletes, Juvenile literature, Biography, Japanese Prisoners and prisons, United states, army air forces, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc., World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, japanese, World war, 1939-1945, aerial operations, american, Campaigns, United States. Army Air Forces. Heavy Bombardment Group, 307th, United States, nyt:young-adult=2014-11-30, New York Times bestseller, World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, World war, 1939-1945, juvenile literature, World war, 1939-1945, aerial operations, United states, biography, juvenile literature, Japan, juvenile literature, Athletes, Athletes, juvenile literature, World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, pacific ocean, Athletes, biography, World war, 1939-1945, pacific area, Airplane crash survival, Survie après accidents d'avion, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Prisonniers et prisons des japonais, Aerial Military operations, American, United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 307thPeople
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
2014, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Unbroken: a journey from being mid air
2014, Delacorte Press
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Standard print ed. originally published: London : Fourth Estate, 2011.
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"On a May afternoon in 1943, an American military plane 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 sagas of the Second World War. The lieutenant's name was Louis Zamperini."--Jacket.
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