Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I started this book before seeing the movie and finished it after, motivated I am sure like millions of others to deepen my experience of this survival tale of weeks in a rubber rafts followed by long imprisonment in the worst of Japan's secret POW camps. The privation, physical abuse, and detrimentally injurious effects much exceed that which is portrayed by Hollywood. Movies have to attenuate, elide, and abbreviate book-length stories and this is book is able to include bits that movie can't, such as the incomplete plans to assassinate The Bird and use a flight parachute to stop Superman. Also, the mysterious mechanical unreliability of Green Hornet and the lack of maneuverability while a bomber is using the Norden bombsight heighten the suspense.
Fully a third of this book covers the very interesting tale of Louie Zamperini's post-release descent and redemption as well as wanderings in Nod of outcast The Bird.
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