Review: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
What an incredible story of endurance, survival, torture and heroism. Such a compelling story but dragged out by the level of detail the author brings in. At times in the book I feel like I am living Zamperini’s hell in real-time.
The well-researched details made it a bit hard to get through but at the same time I learned so much about the US WWII efforts in the Pacific theater. I even impressed my husband with my new knowledge on B-24s! 🙂
So the book loses stars because it gets bogged down but it gains stars because of the story. It’s a good read for those of us whose strongest subject is not history but we are still interested. In short, Louis Zamperini’s life before the war, during the war and after the war is worth reading about.
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As difficult and complex as this story is, it’s easy to read. And don’t be stopped because it’s a WWII story. It’s not so much about combat as all sides of human nature.