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Unbroken A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
Number of Pages: 496
ISBN10: 1400064163
ISBN13: 9781400064168
Dimensions: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.782 lbs.
Language: English
List Price: $28.00
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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 planers"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 lieutenantrs"s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, hers"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 More... 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 inSeabiscuit. Telling an unforgettable story of a manrs"s journey into extremity, Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit. From the Hardcover edition. Less...
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| Map | |
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| Preface | |
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| The One-Boy Insurgency | |
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| Run Like Mad | |
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| The Torrance Tornado | |
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| Plundering Germany | |
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| Into War | |
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| The Flying Coffin | |
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| �This Is It, Boys� | |
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| �Only the Laundry Knew How Scared I Was� | |
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| Five Hundred and Ninety-four Holes | |
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| The Stinking Six | |
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| �Nobody's Going to Live Through This� | |
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| Downed | |
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| Missing at Sea | |
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| Thirst | |
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| Sharks and Bullets | |
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| Singing in the Clouds | |
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| Typhoon | |
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| A Dead Body Breathing | |
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| Two Hundred Silent Men | |
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| Farting for Hirohito | |
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| Belief | |
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| Plots Afoot | |
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| Monster | |
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| Hunted | |
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| B-29 | |
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| Madness | |
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| Falling Down | |
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| Enslaved | |
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| Two Hundred and Twenty Punches | |
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| The Boiling City | |
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| The Naked Stampede | |
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| Cascades of Pink Peaches | |
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| Mother's Day | |
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| The Shimmering Girl | |
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| Coming Undone | |
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| The Body on the Mountain | |
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| Twisted Ropes | |
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| A Beckoning Whistle | |
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| Daybreak | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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Laura Hillenbrand Laura Hillenbrand was a swimmer and an accomplished rider until she was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome. She has been writing about history and thoroughbred racing since 1988 and has been a contributing writer and editor at Equus magazine since 1989. Her work has also appeared in American Heritage, ABC Sports Online, Thoroughbred Times, Talk, and many other publications. Her 1998 American Heritage article on Seabiscuit won her a second Eclipse Award for outstanding feature article. She also served as a consultant on the Universal Pictures movie based on her book "Seabiscuit: An American Legend," which spent 23 weeks on the best-seller list Laura Hillenbrand has More... spent nearly her entire life as a self-described horse lover, and she was honored by the Turf Publicists of America for her contributions to the sport of Thoroughbred racing with the 36th annual "Big Sport of Turfdom" award. In winning this, she became just the fifth woman to win the Big Sport of Turfdom award. Less...
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