Biography
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
2010·475 pages
True story of Olympian Louis Zamperini’s WWII plane crash, ocean ordeal, brutal POW captivity, and hard-won redemption.
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True story of Olympian Louis Zamperini’s WWII plane crash, ocean ordeal, brutal POW captivity, and hard-won redemption.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: Unbroken and Unbroken: Path to Redemption . “Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic.”— The Wall Street Journal Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving on...
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What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Brief courtship and marriage; no explicit sexual content
Violence & gore
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Graphic crash, sharks, starvation; extensive POW torture and beatings
Profanity
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Occasional strong language in military and wartime contexts
Substance use
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Post-war alcoholism portrayed as a destructive central struggle
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQ+ representation depicted
Religious content
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Christian conversion and faith central to the redemption arc
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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WWII geopolitics, wartime culture, and Japanese military ideology
Self-harm / suicide
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Despair and PTSD-related ideation in captivity and aftermath
Abuse & suffering
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Sustained graphic POW torture, beatings, starvation, systemic cruelty
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