Unbroken
By: Laura Hillenbrand
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: ISIS; ISIS Large Print Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780753152898; 9780753152904
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Airplane crash survival; World War, 1939-1945; American Aerial operations; Japanese Prisoners and prisons; Prisoners of war; Biography; Long-distance runners; Large type books; Aerial Military operations; American; United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 307th; United States
Description: In boyhood, Louis Zamperini had been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he channelled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war called the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight, a tiny raft, and thousands of miles of open ocean. Adrift on the foundering raft, Zamperini would face sharks, thirst and starvation and enemy aircraft. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity.
Notes: Standard print ed. originally published: London : Fourth Estate, 2011.