I found I was pretty well engaged throughout most of the book but once the war was over and I listened for several more hours about the aftermath - particularly the Billy Graham portions - I found my interest nearly non-existent. Truly what these men went through was harrowing and it would have b...
62. UNBROKEN, BY LAURA HILLENBRANDRecommended by Trisha Cook, on Goodreads. Actually, I was very vague when I asked for recommendations, and I get the feeling that she recommended many, wildly varied, radically different books, probably sure that at least one of them would please me... I definitely ...
I had a lot of reasons to be interested in this book, not in the least being that my grandpa served in the Pacific Theater during WWII. I think the war in Europe often overshadows the war in the Pacific, so whenever I see something set in that area of the world I'm interested. And then, of course, t...
The life story of Louis Zamperini is more remarkable than anything a fiction writer could have invented. No one would believe this if it were fiction, but it’s meticulously researched. I read not only the story, but the acknowledgements and the notes. The author was thorough. There’s incredible ar...
Every now and then, I read a book that reminds me just how young I am. Last year, I read Terry Tempest William's memoir, When Women Were Birds. I didn't get it. It wasn't that I didn't have the right life experiences to understand the book; I just didn't have enough life experiences, period. Last ni...
Every once in awhile a book comes along that resonates with me deeply. This is just that kind of book. So inspiring and amazing is the biography of Louis Zamperini. Laura Hillenbrand aka Seabiscuit brings this Olympian, WWII veteran and POW survivor's story to life in such a way that it overwhelms o...
bookshelves: winter-20142015, published-2010, biography, north-americas, nonfiction, wwii, war, prisoner, fraudio, giftee Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Mimal Read from August 04, 2012 to December 25, 2014 Graf Zeppelin Narrated by Edward HerrmannDescription: On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army ...
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand has three distinct sections – the brash young man before the war, the determined survivor during the war, and the soldier who came home changed after the war. I leave this book, awed by Louis Zamperini's stor...
Unbroken was set up to be a great book for me. It shares an audiobook narrator and the first section of the book deals with the 1936 Olympics as my favorite book of the year, The Boys in the Boat. That first section of the book was great and I loved seeing many of the same events that concluded Th...
I can't really wrap my head or words around what I'd say in a review for this book. Louis Zamperini's story, as written by Laura Hillenbrand of Seabiscuit fame, is quite simply remarkable, shattering, wonderful, horrifying, tragic, terrifying, unbelievable, devastating. It shows both the best and th...
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