Unbroken Book Historical Accuracy

Unbroken is billed as the true story of louis zamperini an olympic runner who served in the us air force during world war ii.

Unbroken book historical accuracy. The mistreatment of pows is an aspect of the good war that the american public is largely unaware of because both the united states and japan shared a common interest in avoiding discussion of these crimes for most of the postwar period. Quite closely though as those reviews have mentioned a lot of details are left out from the 137 minute running time. Angelina jolie s solid film unbroken based on laura hillenbrand s book of the same title depicts imperial japan s brutal treatment of american pows during world war ii.

While on a mission over the pacific ocean in 1943 his plane went. I was wondering was the book unbroken historically accurate. Fri 18 feb 2011 19 05 est.

Dear connor the facts are as intact as they can be given author laura hillenbrand s ability to consult with her subject. Also such adherence to fact would likely render a work of fiction not fiction. A second world war tale of brutality survival and redemption impresses kevin rushby.

American history remains one of the most popular genres of history which is why we see dozens of books published each year on the subject. Unbroken by laura hillenbrand review. The film ends for instance soon after the war ends whereas hillenbrand.

Phil stringer on the issues related to the text of scripture and the king james bible. Naturally historical fiction is different from history books and i think only the very worst pedants would expect utter slavish adherence to historical facts in a work of fiction. The plan was to execute.

A people s history of the united states. From beloved classics to eye opening narratives we compiled together 10 of the best books to buy on american history. The end of the war on august 20 the pows were informed by the camp commander that the war has come to a point of cessation two days before their execution date.