A review by pixelthis
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

3.0

I know I'm bucking all the 5 star reviews out there, but while I learned a lot from this book about how risky things were to air crews in WWII I especially in the Pacific Theater, how appalling the circumstances to which the Japanese subjected prisoners of war, and what it took for many of those prisoners to recover (if they ever did), I don't think that the story was told especially well. That it was extensively researched I have no doubt, the bibliography and acknowledgements are substantial but the telling of the tale seemed disjointed to me. I didn't find this to be a compelling "page turner", every time I felt myself starting to get drawn into Louie's story there was a random anecdote from some completely unrelated person. If this were a history of POW 's in the Pacific then that would make sense but as part of one man's biography I found them to be jarring. YMMV