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

Author: Hillenbrand, LauraBrand: Random House Trade PaperbacksColor: MulticolorEdition: ReprintFeatures: 12 Years Old Bottled by Distillery Bottling Binding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 528Release Date: 29-07-2014Part Number: 39881301Details: Product Description #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, thirst and starvation, enemy aircr