So I haven't actually seen the movie version of Unbroken yet (directed by Angelina Jolie) but it's based upon the acclaimed book of the same name, by Laura Hillenbrand.
(The book's full title: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption)
I don't usually read nonfiction, unless it's a memoir, and the reason is that I tend to get bored with them. Unbroken is technically a memoir, although not an autobiography; the subject of it, Louis Zamperini, has told his story to Hillenbrand, who has recorded it for posterity. Although the book was a bit slow in parts, overall it was an interesting - and true - read.
Official synopsis:
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 plane’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 lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he’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 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.
(The book's full title: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption)
I don't usually read nonfiction, unless it's a memoir, and the reason is that I tend to get bored with them. Unbroken is technically a memoir, although not an autobiography; the subject of it, Louis Zamperini, has told his story to Hillenbrand, who has recorded it for posterity. Although the book was a bit slow in parts, overall it was an interesting - and true - read.
Official synopsis:
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The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he’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 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.