On a May afteroon in 1943, an army Air Foeces bomber 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 liutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to life raft and pulling himself abroad. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.
The Liutenant's name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he'd been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become 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 thousand of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutally with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraving wire of his will.
Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit.
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