Unbroken
About this book
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 plane’s 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 lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he’d 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.
Subjects
- aerial military operations
- aerial operations
- american
- american aerial operations
- amerikanischer kriegsgefangener
- andra världskriget 1939-1945
- biographies
- biographies & memoirs
- biography
- campagnes et batailles
- campaigns
- campañas
- chōsen kōgei kenkyūkai
- corredores (deportes)
- coureurs de fond
- guerra mundial ii, 1939-1945
- guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
- japanese prisoners and prisons
- kampfflieger
- krigsfångar
- krigsfångar, japanska
- long-distance runners
- military
- military campaigns
- new york times bestseller
- nyt:hardcover_political_books=2012-02-25
- operaciones aéreas estadounidenses
- pazifikkrieg
- prisioneros de guerra
- prisioneros y prisiones japoneses
- prisoners and prisons
- prisoners of war
- prisonniers de guerre
- prisonniers et prisons des japonais
- reading materials
- runners (sports)
- spanish language
- spanish language materials
- survival
- survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.
- united states
- united states, army air forces
- united states. army air forces. bombardment group, 307th
- united states. army air forces. heavy bombardment group, 307th
- university of south alabama
- world war, 1939-1945
- world war, 1939-1945, aerial operations, american
- world war, 1939-1945, campaigns, pacific ocean
- world war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, japanese
- world war ii