Audies In this captivating and lavishly illustrated Young Adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian\'s courage, cunning, and fortitude following his plane crash in enemy territory.
Praise for Unbroken"This adaptation of Hillenbrand\'s Adult bestseller is highly dramatic and exciting, as well as painful to read as it lays bare man\'s.
Featuring more than one hundred photographs plus an exclusive interview with Zamperini, this breathtaking odyssey--also captured on film by director Angelina Jolie--is a testament to the strength of the human spirit and the ability to endure against the unlikeliest of odds.
His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would hang on the fraying wire of his will.
Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would respond to desperation with ingenuity, suffering with hope and humor, brutality with rebellion.
Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a sinking raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater.
But when war came, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a Journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.
As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a supreme talent that carried him to the Berlin Olympics.
As a boy, he had been a clever delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and stealing.
The lieutenant\'s name was Louis Zamperini.
So began one of the most extraordinary sagas of the Second World War.
It was that of a Young lieutenant, the plane\'s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard.
Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared.
On a May afternoon in 1943, an American military plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood.
This adaptation of Unbroken introduces a new generation to one of history\'s most thrilling survival epics.
Audies In this captivating and lavishly illustrated Young Adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian\'s courage, cunning, and fortitude following his plane crash in enemy territory
