Unbroken

Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand

On a May afternoon in 1943, a US bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean. After an agonising delay, a young lieutenant finally bobbed to the surface and struggled aboard a life raft. So begins one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. As a boy, he turned to petty crime until he discovered a remarkable talent for running, which took him to the Berlin Olympics. But as war loomed, he joined up and was soon embroiled in the ferocious battle for the Pacific.Now Zamperini faced a journey of thousands of miles of open ocean on a failing raft, dogged by sharks, starvation and the enemy. Driven to limits of endurance, Zamperini’s fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would depend on the strength of his will…

LAURA HILLENBRAND

Unbroken

An Extraordinary True Story of

Courage and Survival

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First published in Great Britain in 2011 by

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Originally published in the United States by Random House in 2010

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For the wounded and the lost

What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, Of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

—Walt Whitman, “The Wound-Dresser”

CONTENTS

Title Page (#ud0794d23-6107-5df3-91cf-cb46b4b59ff3)

Copyright (#uc315d9a0-9a4f-5a36-94b8-bbd1d92a5412)

PREFACE (#u380f05e3-e29e-5889-8899-82bb0682f8c8)

PART I (#ueb7e2c9d-22cc-5523-a4e3-9b203a37186d)

One The One-Boy Insurgency (#uf151d2d2-d654-56d1-a56a-279bd95071a6)

Two Run Like Mad (#u0d650c80-8128-5d75-8cb5-f6f93d09d4a7)

Three The Torrance Tornado (#uc080f0ef-d6d3-5901-bf50-a246410a079e)

Four Plundering Germany (#uaea1dd42-5619-5874-a123-879754e4debe)

Five Into War (#uf8c6425d-87c7-5001-bfdd-bc959ffb99cf)

PART II (#u7c898790-aa64-5a1f-8e95-3d5b09ceb59a)

Six The Flying Coffin (#ua2088dd7-c5e1-5e49-a234-a81a759f93d7)

Seven “This Is It, Boys” (#ue130660f-d2a1-5011-93d4-dd311d2fb41f)

Eight “Only the Laundry Knew How Scared I Was” (#u07a5d414-237d-5b9c-b925-8b48cf360838)

Nine Five Hundred and Ninety-four Holes (#ubdfa2419-e72a-51de-816f-0d91a0b5d748)

Ten The Stinking Six (#ud94d4987-1473-5305-91e4-d13eebf37108)

Eleven “Nobody’s Going to Live Through This” (#u55211073-2426-59e8-ba00-4eebdd9ee7f7)

PART III (#litres_trial_promo)

Twelve Downed (#litres_trial_promo)

Thirteen Missing at Sea (#litres_trial_promo)

Fourteen Thirst (#litres_trial_promo)

Fifteen Sharks and Bullets (#litres_trial_promo)

Sixteen Singing in the Clouds (#litres_trial_promo)

Seventeen Typhoon (#litres_trial_promo)

PART IV (#litres_trial_promo)

Eighteen A Dead Body Breathing (#litres_trial_promo)

Nineteen Two Hundred Silent Men (#litres_trial_promo)