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Hillenbrand, Laura.

Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption / Laura Hillenbrand.

Random House trade paperback edition.

New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014.

©2010

xviii, 500 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm

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.

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.

Biographies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-467) and index.

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.

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