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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

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hillenbrand-unbroken-4Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption:
by Laura Hillenbrand
published 2010
pages 473

In May 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific and quickly sank, leaving behind only two survivors bobbing helplessly in the restless seas. One of them was Louis Zamperini, a 26-year-old airman who had overcome a troubled past to become an Olympic athlete. After 47 perilous days adrift on a raft, Zamperini and his companion survivor were rescued by the Japanese navy. He remained a prisoner of war  for two and a half years until the end of the war.



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