Unbroken
In a distant past, where the many great countries of this wonderful planet were in a heated war. Where countless deaths were guaranteed. Where the young men of all nations were forcibly drafted into one of the largest combatant time period the world has ever seen. One American olympic runner must survive countless ordeals such as plane crashes, raft survival, and Japanese attacks, and even after doing so, he his not guaranteed he will live to see tomorrow or even freedom via rescue. When reading this book I loved it. In a more detailed explanation, I was rather disappointed in the book’s extremely slow start, but that is no surprise as the first 75 pages were describing his olympic career and childhood. I did not purchase such a novel …show more content…
Shortly after successfully bombing a Japanese controlled island in the pacific, Louie and his crew find themselves in quite the predicament. They crew had a zero on their tail and had their bomb bay trapdoor stuck. This served as an extreme handicap as that single feature meant air was rushing in and out of the plane making it harder to move around and defend themselves. Just to clarify, the type of plane Louie and Phil were using was a B 24 and the Japanese planes were identified as zeroes. The zero held nothing back, shooting all that they had got at the B 24. Bullet holes seemed to infect the plain and quickly spread to almost all of it. Before anyone knew it, a single bullet finally connected and killed one of Louie’s dear friends. It is then the tears are triggered. In the heat of the battle the friend left Louie with the final question of whether or not he was going to die. Quite out of cliche, Louie wishes not to leave his fellow comrade with a lie. Instead of sugarcoating the impossible, Louie simply says yes you are. The bomb bay doors are then finally closed, and the Superman, the B 24 they had been flying, zoomed off for one last landing. Its days of flying had reached an end. This is my favorite scene as it is one of the first action packed parts of the book. Sure, there were a few accounts of the crew bombing random Japanese bases before this, but never had one been explained in such magnitude of intensity. This, for me at least, was the start of an action-packed war novel that I had hand selected due to its great reviews. If you are looking to get straight to the interesting part of this book, I suggest starting
In a distant past, where the many great countries of this wonderful planet were in a heated war. Where countless deaths were guaranteed. Where the young men of all nations were forcibly drafted into one of the largest combatant time period the world has ever seen. One American olympic runner must survive countless ordeals such as plane crashes, raft survival, and Japanese attacks, and even after doing so, he his not guaranteed he will live to see tomorrow or even freedom via rescue. When reading this book I loved it. In a more detailed explanation, I was rather disappointed in the book’s extremely slow start, but that is no surprise as the first 75 pages were describing his olympic career and childhood. I did not purchase such a novel …show more content…
Shortly after successfully bombing a Japanese controlled island in the pacific, Louie and his crew find themselves in quite the predicament. They crew had a zero on their tail and had their bomb bay trapdoor stuck. This served as an extreme handicap as that single feature meant air was rushing in and out of the plane making it harder to move around and defend themselves. Just to clarify, the type of plane Louie and Phil were using was a B 24 and the Japanese planes were identified as zeroes. The zero held nothing back, shooting all that they had got at the B 24. Bullet holes seemed to infect the plain and quickly spread to almost all of it. Before anyone knew it, a single bullet finally connected and killed one of Louie’s dear friends. It is then the tears are triggered. In the heat of the battle the friend left Louie with the final question of whether or not he was going to die. Quite out of cliche, Louie wishes not to leave his fellow comrade with a lie. Instead of sugarcoating the impossible, Louie simply says yes you are. The bomb bay doors are then finally closed, and the Superman, the B 24 they had been flying, zoomed off for one last landing. Its days of flying had reached an end. This is my favorite scene as it is one of the first action packed parts of the book. Sure, there were a few accounts of the crew bombing random Japanese bases before this, but never had one been explained in such magnitude of intensity. This, for me at least, was the start of an action-packed war novel that I had hand selected due to its great reviews. If you are looking to get straight to the interesting part of this book, I suggest starting