![]() ![]() But after reading this story it's opened my eyes to so much that has happened. I'll be honest with you, when I first walked into this book I wasn't expecting to take anything out of it or be interested in the story. Unbroken is in the end about the power of forgiveness in Jesus Christ to deal with the scars of such events.Īll I see he thought, is a dead body breathing. Unbroken is a book not so much about the awful things men can put other men through, or the survival of castaways by extreme methods. But without Louie’s obvious Christian conversion, he would have remained a broken man. The book goes a little light on the person of Jesus, focusing instead on Billy Graham. What saved him was the Lord Jesus Christ. Once home in Hollywood, he gave in to a deep alcohol addiction, anger toward God, and the quest for vengeance to kill the main prison guard who beat him mercilessly. You see, Louis Zamperini did NOT survive with an unbroken spirit. ![]() But I found the last 2 chpaters or so more powerful than all the sensational experiences he went through. Now, the secular version would marvel at the resilience of the human spirit through all this. ![]() Going through one harrowing experience after another with sharks and prison guards, Louie comes through unbroken. The writing style is very good: straight-forward, plain, and quite compelling. I read an adaptation for young adults – I don’t know how it’s different from the original. Most amazing biography I’ve read for years. Lavishly illustrated with more than one hundred photographs and featuring an exclusive interview with Zamperini, Unbroken will introduce a new generation to one of history’s most thrilling survival epics. In this captivating young adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a man’s breathtaking odyssey and the courage, cunning, and fortitude he found to endure and overcome. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would hang on the fraying wire of his will. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would respond to desperation with ingenuity, suffering with hope and humor, brutality with rebellion. But when war came, the athlete became 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 sinking raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a supreme talent that carried him to the Berlin Olympics. As a boy, he had been a clever delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and stealing. The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. So began one of the most extraordinary sagas 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 American military plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this riveting biography includes more than 100 black-and-white photos, as well as exclusive content, "In Conversation," with Laura Hillenbrand and Louie Zamperini. The #1 New York Times bestseller, which is also a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie, has now been adapted by the author for young adults. ![]()
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