Format:
Book
Author:
Hillenbrand, Laura.
Title:
Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption / Laura Hillenbrand.
Edition:
Random House trade paperback edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014.
©2010
Description:
xviii, 500 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Summary:
Relates the story of a U.S. airman who survived when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II, spent forty-seven days adrift in the ocean before being rescued by the Japanese Navy, and was held as a prisoner until the end of the war.
Subjects:
Zamperini, Louis, 1917-2014.
United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 307th.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography.
Prisoners of war -- Japan -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area.
Long-distance runners -- United States -- Biography.
Genre:
Biographies.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-467) and index.
Contents:
The one-boy insurgency -- Run like mad -- The Torrance tornado -- Plundering Germany -- Into war -- The flying coffin -- "This is it, boys" -- "Only the laundry knew how scared I was" -- Five hundred and ninety-four holes -- The stinking six -- "Nobody's going to live through this" -- Downed -- Missing at sea -- Thirst -- Sharks and bullets -- Singing in the clouds -- Typhoon -- A dead body breathing -- Two hundred silent men -- Farting for Hirohito -- Belief -- Plots afoot -- Monster -- Hunted -- B-29 -- Madness -- Falling down -- Enslaved -- Two hundred and twenty punches -- The boiling city -- The naked stampede -- Cascades of pink peaches -- Mother's day -- The shimmering girl -- Coming undone -- The body on the mountain -- Twisted ropes -- A beckoning whistle -- Daybreak.
LCCN:
2013497761
ISBN:
9780812987119
081298711X
9780812974492
0812974492
9780606355988
0606355987
9780605846104
0605846103
9781400064168
1400064163
9780812987119
9780812987119
081298711X
9780812974492
0812974492
9780606355988
0606355987
Other Number:
884576498
System Availability:
4
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
4
Control Number:
274073
Call Number:
940.54 Hillenbr
Course Reserves:
0
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# System items in:
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