Unbroken: A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand
This is an inspring, true story of Louis Zamperini’s fight for survival during WWII. Hillenbrand takes us through Zamperini’s defiant boyhood, his adolescent and young adults years as a runner, training and competing in the Olympics, his time in WWII as an airman, the brutality he endured as a prisoner of war under the Japanese, and his return home battling the demons from his past. The book is well researched and documented and told from the narration of a journalist. Our group thought Hillenbrand chose this style, as it may reflect the emotional detachment that was necessary for Zamperini to cope and survive with the horrors of his past. One of the mostvivid parts of the book is Zamperini’s journey of survival in the Pacific after his plane crashes. Zamperini’s sufferings as a POW under the Bird are some of the most brutal scenes in the book. While some in our group felt that this would not have been a book that they would have chosen on their own, it was agreed that the book’s portrayal of one man’s suffering, hope, and resolve to survive was well worth the read. Zamperini’s ability to forgive his tormenter and make peace with his years as a POW truly shows the power of the human spirit and how it can triumph over tragedy.
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