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Unbroken (Movie Tie-in Edition): A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand, Laura Hillenbrand
4.44 AVERAGE
4.5k reviews for:
Unbroken (Movie Tie-in Edition): A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand, Laura Hillenbrand
4.44 AVERAGE
I would restart this book tomorrow if I didn't have book club books to get to. This is a great one! I highly recommend it for the people who "want to read non fiction but just can't get into it." It reads like a novel with a storyline that is so grueling that it is almost hard to believe it is true. I'm very glad Hillenbrand captured the life of Louis Zamperini (and the lives of the rest of the characters) with great dignity, honesty and empathy. This is an important story to tell from start to finish-one that will stick with me for a long time.
Hillebrand's narrative account of Louis Zamperini's experiences as a young adult, airman, and prisoner of war, is both compelling and brilliant. Unbroken was difficult to put down.
I'm glad I read it, but it was heartbreaking. Viva Louie!
Listened to it on audio. Fascinating and outstanding and you should go read it immediately.
Remarkable book every which way. How resilient can a human possibly be? The stuff Zamperini survives is mind-boggling. Not to mention how he gets his life back together afterwards. Like many of the other reviewers, I grew up with much more knowledge about the European front in WWII, and much less about what went on in the Pacific, and learned much more about it than expected.
Both thumbs up.
And whenever I pick up my trumpet to sound Taps for a WWII vet from now on, this book will be in the back of my mind.
Both thumbs up.
And whenever I pick up my trumpet to sound Taps for a WWII vet from now on, this book will be in the back of my mind.
This book was both devastating and inspiring. Different account of WWII than I've read before. A must read.
Absolutely amazing. I haven't seen the movie and even though I'm a huge Angelina Jolie fan, I don't think I will because I don't want anything to infringe on my wonderful experience reading this book.
This is an excellent bookk covering the life of Louis Zamperini, olympic runner turned military during World War II. Louis's plane went down in the pacific where he was stationed to defend the US from the Japanese, spent over 40 days adrift in the ocean only to be rescued by the Japanese who impriosoned him for the remainder of the war. The book is very well written and reasearched and never gets bogged down with its subject or the war.