Summary Of Louis Zamperini's 'Unbroken'

Unbroken is a historical narrative about Louis Zamperini’s life, mainly focusing on him being a prisoner of war during the second World War. The book talks in detail about the camps and all of the prisoners hardships while they’re there. It gives insight on what they went through on a daily basis, being forced to help the Japanese during the war and not being fed. When people discuss World War II they tend to mainly discuss the troubles in Germany and about the bombings in Japan, but never talk about the 140,000 prisoners in Japanese prisoner of war camps. One in three men in these camps either died of starvation, work, punishments, or diseases that were untreatable due to lack of medicine. These camps were based in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and other Japanese controlled countries. …show more content…
Although Japan had not signed the agreement, they promised to abide by the terms.The agreement also agreed no prisoners of war would be forced to do dangerous work and would be paid, they would also be fed and given proper shelter and medical care along with being allowed to correspond with family members and make the International Red Cross aware of their capture. The Japanese camp leaders followed none of these rules and made up their own regulations and punishments. Men who attempted to escape were also executed in front of the other prisoners, and in some camps as many as ten men were executed as punishment for one man trying to escape. It was almost impossible to escape from a Japanese prisoner of war camp, so hard that it was known to be almost suicidal. These men were also tortured until they revealed information about war plans and locations, which was against the Geneva