Unbroken

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 500 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A gripping true story of human endurance and the resilience of one remarkable individual during WWII from Laura Hillenbrand (author of Seabiscuit). 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 lieutenants 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, Zamperinis fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would depend on the strength of his will...

ISBN: 9780008108342