num_pages: 320
description: 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. 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.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. Then on the ocean surface a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant the planes bombardier who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary sagas of the Second World War. The lieutenants name was Louis Zamperini. As a boy he had been a clever delinquent breaking into houses brawling and stealing. As a teenager he had channeled his defiance into running discovering a supreme talent that carried him to the Berlin Olympics. 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. Ahead 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. Driven to the limits of endurance Zamperini would respond to desperation with ingenuity suffering with hope and humor brutality with rebellion. His fate whether triumph or tragedy would hang on the fraying wire of his will. In this captivating young adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a mans breathtaking odyssey and the courage cunning and fortitude he found to endure and overcome. Lavishly illustrated with more than one hundred photographs and featuring an exclusive interview with Zamperini Unbroken will introduce a new generation to one of historys most thrilling survival epics.
language: English
title: Unbroken: An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive
publisher: Delacorte Press