As Louis was transferred from POW camp to POW camp, his suffering gradually increased as the allies closed in on the Japanese. What followed was a physical and mental torture that no one should ever have to endure. When their raft drifted by a Japanese-held island, the survivors were taken as prisoners of war (POW). This was endured by Louis and the two other survivors of the Green Hornet crash and that was only the beginning of their ordeal. Imagine being stranded in the ocean in a raft with no food, water, supplies or protection from the elements, surrounded by sharks and away from anything familiar. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is, without a doubt, one of the most impacting and impressive books about survival during a war that I have ever read. “The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.” The details included in this story transport you to the horrific POW camps in Japan. It has all the suspense and excitement of a novel, and finally because of the story is the ultimate tale of survival and hope. This book is one of the best non-fiction books about WWII ever written because it puts you in the POW camps with Louie and his comrades. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand set during WWII in the South Pacific and Japanese prison camps follows Louie’s struggles through the POW camps. Soon after Louie and his best friend Phil Allen hit land, they were captured by Japan and forced into gruelling prisoner of war camps. While on a patrol mission after being in Hawaii for a year, his plane went down and he, along with two others survived. ![]() In the early 1940s, the US was plunged into WWII and Zamperini was drafted into the Air Force as a bombardier and stationed in Hawaii. ![]() His traumatic experiences are chronicled in the nonfiction book Unbroken, written by Laura Hillenbrand with information she collected by interviewing Louie Zamperini. Louis Zamperini went through that terrible ordeal and much, much more during his time as a lieutenant in the U.S. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.īook Review: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity suffering with hope, resolve, and humor brutality with rebellion. 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.Īhead 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. 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. In boyhood, he’d been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. ![]() The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. ![]() Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. 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. Book Summary: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
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