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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

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That magic recipe of harrowing nonfiction that reads with the gusto of well-plotted fiction. It’s the story of a crashed WWII gunner stranded in the Pacific and his unlikely—nay, impossible—journey to survival. The human spirit is impenetrable, and nowhere is that better seen than here.

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. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft. 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 a cunning and incorrigible delinquent. As a t...

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