Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival. Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
Believe the hype - this is a fantastic book! Sometimes books, movies, or restaurants get a lot of hype and buzz but really are not what they are cracked up to be. Unbroken is everywhere nowadays - bookstores, my local grocery store is selling it. I just saw online that there is a movie deal. Is it the real deal? Laura Hillenbrand Yes, Unbroken is an amazing biography, and it is most definitely the real deal. I plowed right through 450 pages of text in near-record time, devouring chunks of a story that continued to take new twists and turns and lead me to follow Louis Zamperini from the heights of athletic glory in the 1936 Berlin Olympics to the literal pits of despair in a digging out prison camp latrine with his bare hands in order to earn enough grains of rice to barely fuel his ravaged, starved body. Louis Zamperini grew up as a juvenile delinquent in Torrance, California - a restless kid who, at the urging of his big brother, finally channeled his impressive run