When reviewing the book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption its hard to find anything bad to say. The book was so thrilling and enjoyable that I could see a person having a hard time putting it down. Louie Zamperini is the main character of this book written by Laura Hillenbrand. The summary of the book is about the unpredictable, wild, and inspiring story of a young boy who did nothing but get in trouble, and remarkably ends up having one of the most talked about and interesting war stories of all time.
Laura Hillenbrand is the author of this incredible book. She is very well known for her book Seabiscuit that she wrote ten years before Unbroken. During her research for the book Seabiscuit she came across a newspaper clipping about Louie Zamperini. In resemblance to Seabiscuit, the story was about a great sprinter, just one being a horse and one being a man. Hillenbrand has struggled with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for twenty-five years, so stories about overcoming adversity …show more content…
He was moved aroud to different prisoner-of-war camps such as “Execution island”, the interrogation center called Ofuna, and Naoetsu. Hillenbrand shows us how Louie must use all his gifts to overcome such bad circumstances. Louie is beaten on a daily basis and starved almost to death. At the last prisoner-of-war camp Louie was stationed with his later in life real worst nightmare. The author describes this man, known as “The Bird”, as one of the most cruel, and violent people imaginable. The Bird did things to Louie such as hit him in the head with the metal part of a belt, allow all other prisoners to punch Louie in the face, and continuously beat Louie and other prisoners with a thick wooden stick. Hillenbrand does a great job of showing us these things in detail and using them as examples to show how truly remarkable Louie Zamperini’s life
Laura Hillenbrand is the author of this incredible book. She is very well known for her book Seabiscuit that she wrote ten years before Unbroken. During her research for the book Seabiscuit she came across a newspaper clipping about Louie Zamperini. In resemblance to Seabiscuit, the story was about a great sprinter, just one being a horse and one being a man. Hillenbrand has struggled with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for twenty-five years, so stories about overcoming adversity …show more content…
He was moved aroud to different prisoner-of-war camps such as “Execution island”, the interrogation center called Ofuna, and Naoetsu. Hillenbrand shows us how Louie must use all his gifts to overcome such bad circumstances. Louie is beaten on a daily basis and starved almost to death. At the last prisoner-of-war camp Louie was stationed with his later in life real worst nightmare. The author describes this man, known as “The Bird”, as one of the most cruel, and violent people imaginable. The Bird did things to Louie such as hit him in the head with the metal part of a belt, allow all other prisoners to punch Louie in the face, and continuously beat Louie and other prisoners with a thick wooden stick. Hillenbrand does a great job of showing us these things in detail and using them as examples to show how truly remarkable Louie Zamperini’s life