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Unbroken book page count. A world war ii story of survival resilience and redemption is a 2010 non fiction book by laura hillenbrand. A world war ii story of survival resilience and redemption and seabiscuit. As a teenager he channeled his defiance into running discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the berlin olympics.

Laura hillenbrand is the author of the 1 new york times bestseller seabiscuit. Unbroken is a biography of world war ii hero louis zamperini a former olympic track star who survived a plane crash in the pacific theater spent 47 days drifting on a raft and then survived more than two and a half years as a prisoner of war pow in three brutal japanese. I found the book to be a very wordy and i m sad to say i did skim some pages.

2 1 2 hurricane stars sadly i wasn t rocked like a hurricane from this book like i thought i would be. I didn t care for the main character juliet at all. An american legend which was a finalist for the national book critics circle award won the book sense nonfiction book of the year award and the william hill sports book of the year award landed on more than fifteen best of the year lists.

A world war ii story of survival resilience and redemption by laura hillenbrand 16 total resources 1 awards view text complexity discover like books. But when world war ii began the athlete became an airman embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a may afternoon in 1943. Howard usmc ret who worked with captain william rudich usn ret lieutenant colonel todd holmquist usmc major heather cotoia usmc boatswain s mate chief frank weber usn ret and jim heath phd professor emeritus portland state university to find information on everett almond the navigator who was killed by a shark while trying to save himself and his pilot.

This is a love story spanning fifty years from the latter part of the 20th century to the first decades of the 21st century. Laura hillenbrand is the author of the 1 new york times bestseller unbroken. An american legend which was a finalist for the national book critics circle award won the book sense book of the year award and the william hill sports book of the year award landed on more than fifteen best of the year lists and inspired the film seabiscuit which was nominated for seven academy awards.

I found the story to be pretty predictable. Her internal dialogue was exhausting and sadly quite boring. A world war ii story of survival resilience and redemption.