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Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption /

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Relates the story of a U.S. airman who survived when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II, spent forty-seven days adrift in the ocean before being rescued by the Japanese Navy, and was held as a prisoner until the end of the war.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hillenbrand, Laura
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014.
Edition:Random House trade paperback edition.
Subjects:
Zamperini, Louis, > 1917-2014.
United States. > Army Air Forces. > Bombardment Group, 307th.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Prisoners of war > United States > Biography.
Prisoners of war > Japan > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Pacific Area.
Long-distance runners > United States > Biography.
Long-distance runners.
Military campaigns.
Military operations, Aerial > American.
Prisoners of war.
Japan.
Pacific Area.
United States.
1939-1945
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • The one-boy insurgency
  • Run like mad
  • The Torrance tornado
  • Plundering Germany
  • Into war
  • The flying coffin
  • "This is it, boys"
  • "Only the laundry knew how scared I was"
  • Five hundred and ninety-four holes
  • The stinking six
  • "Nobody's going to live through this"
  • Downed
  • Missing at sea
  • Thirst
  • Sharks and bullets
  • Singing in the clouds
  • Typhoon
  • A dead body breathing
  • Two hundred silent men
  • Farting for Hirohito
  • Belief
  • Plots afoot
  • Monster
  • Hunted
  • B-29
  • Madness
  • Falling down
  • Enslaved
  • Two hundred and twenty punches
  • The boiling city
  • The naked stampede
  • Cascades of pink peaches
  • Mother's day
  • The shimmering girl
  • Coming undone
  • The body on the mountain
  • Twisted ropes
  • A beckoning whistle
  • Daybreak.