Book Review Of Unbroken
A world war ii story of survival resilience and redemption by laura hillenbrand is one of the most unusual battle stories of all.
Book review of unbroken. I had loved hillenbrand s previous work seabiscuit and had bought a copy of unbroken back in 2010 as soon as it was released. It is a book of hope for. Unbroken is no different.
Unbroken is an amazing survival story but this book is also so grim that it took me five years to finish it. A world war ii story of survival resilience and redemption laura hillenbrand random 27 496 isbn 978 1 4000 6416 8 more by and about this author. I just finished the audio book of unbroken a world war ii story of survival resilience and redemption by laura hillenbrand author of seabiscuit and i think endurance athletes are going to love it.
Meticulously researched and powerful. The pieces of louie s life were glued back together and made him unbroken. The reader unlike the airmen would rather the days adrift went on longer.
Apart from a rocky beginning when seeming to lack confidence in her main character she hypes him she is intelligent and restrained and wise enough to let the story unfold for itself. A book review of unbroken by hillenbrand laura. Unbroken by laura hillenbrand louis zamperini went through that terrible ordeal and much much more during his time as a lieutenant in the u s.
They end however in grim style. A hell of a story in the grip of the one writer who can handle it. It s a biography of louis zamperini a miler 5k runner who competed in the 1936 berlin olympics as the youngest us athlete to make the team and then went on to a life of staggering tests.
His traumatic experiences are chronicled in the nonfiction book unbroken written by laura hillenbrand with information she collected by interviewing louie zamperini.