Unbroken Book

From the author of the bestselling and much-loved 'Seabiscuit' an extraordinary true story of courage and survival. On a May afternoon in 1943 a 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 who struggled to a life raft and pulled 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 an incorrigible delinquent breaking into houses brawling and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager he had channelled 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 adrift 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 humour; brutality with rebellion. His fate whether triumph or tragedy would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will. The long-awaited new book from Laura Hillenbrand 'Unbroken' is a gripping account of human endurance and the resilience of one remarkable individual.Read More