Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption -- Laura

<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER - The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: <i>Unbroken </i>and <i>Unbroken: Path to Redemption</i>. <p/>"Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic."--<i>The Wall Street Journal</i> <p/>Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by <i>Time</i> magazine - Winner of the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Prize for biography</b> <p/>On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces 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 lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War. <p/>The lieutenant'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. <p/>Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy ai