Nonfiction Book Discussion

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

Louis Zamperini was a young man training for the 1940 Olympics when the games were cancelled due to the outbreak of World War II. Unbroken charts his alternate fate as an Army Corps bombardier who spent 47 days afloat encircled by sharks after his B-24 crashed into the Pacific. Even more astounding is the chronicle of his survival as a POW in the Japanese “theater of cruelty.” Still active at 94, Zamperini epitomizes the generation that refused to be broken.

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