Laura Hillenbrand

Unbroken: a world war ii story of survival, resilience, and redemption - Laura Hillenbrand

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On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared.

Then, on the ocean surface, the face of a young lieutenant appeared as he struggled to pull himself aboard a life raft.

So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.

In her long-awaited new book, the author of Seabiscuit tells an unforgettable story of a man's journey into extremity.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014's Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption .

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.

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 man's journey into extremity, Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit.

Praise for Unbroken Extraordinarily moving .

a powerfully drawn survival epic.

-- The Wall Street Journal 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.

--New York Staggering .

mesmerizing .

Hillenbrand's writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so incredible, you don't dare take your eyes off the page.

-- People A meticulous, soaring and beautifully written account of an extraordinary life.

--The Washington Post Ambitious and powerful .

a startling narrative and an inspirational book.

--The New York Times Book Review Marvelous .

Unbroken is wonderful twice over, for the tale it tells and for the way it's told.

It manages maximum velocity with no loss of subtlety.

-- Newsweek Moving and, yes, inspirational .

Laura] Hillenbrand's 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.

--Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air Hillenbrand .

tells this] story with cool elegance but at a thrilling sprinter's pace.

-- Time Unbroken is too much book to hope for: a hellride of a story in the grip of the one writer who can handle it.

--Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run.

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