Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
What an amazing book! What an inspiring story! The story is that of Louis Zamperini. He was an adventurous child getting into many scrapes as a young teen, and then he found a love of running. He became an international celebrity after participating in the 1936 Olympics and was expected to bring home a medal in the 1940 games, but alas there were none.
Louis Zamperini joined the air force and flew B24 bombers in the Second World War. He flies many missions, but one day his plane goes down and three of them are left to survive in the open sea. After many days they finally landed on an island occupied by the Japanese. He spent the rest of the war only just surviving in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
The book is wonderfully well written. I was hooked from the first pages. Laura Hillenbrand has an amazing way of telling a story. The book was riveting with full of detail and flowed perfectly. The true story was astonishing and at times funny. Louis Zamperini is an amazing person to write about, and I'm looking forward to the movie coming out soon.
As a result of reading this book, I've decided to read Hillenbrand's first book, Seabiscuit. There are many authors, but few who write with this quality.
