Unbroken a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption
Record details
- ISBN: 0679603751 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780679603757 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xviii, 473 p.) : ill., map.
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electronic resource - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, c2010.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-457) and index. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 307th. |
Genre: | Electronic books. |
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Electronic resources
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2010 October #1
The author of Seabiscuit now brings us a biography of World War II prisoner of war survivor Louis Zamperini (b. 1917). A track athlete at the 1936 Munich Olympics, Zamperini became a B-24 crewman in the U.S. Army Air Force. When his plane went down in the Pacific in 1943, he spent 47 days in a life raft, then was picked up by a Japanese ship and survived starvation and torture in labor camps. Eventually repatriated, he had a spiritual rebirth and returned to Japan to promote forgiveness and healing. Because of the author's popularity, libraries will want this book both for general readers who like a good story and for World War II history buffs; however, it's not essential reading for those who read Zamperini's autobiography, Devil at My Heels, with David Rensin, in its 2003 edition. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 7/10.]
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