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Unbroken (2010)
Front Cover Book Details
Genre Non-Fiction
Subject Long-distance runners - United States - Biography; Prisoners of war - Japan - Biography; Prisoners of war - United States - Biography; United States. Army Air Forces. Heavy Bombardment Group, 307th; World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Pacific; World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese; Zamperini, Louis, 1917-
Publication Date 2010
Format Hardcover
Publisher Random House
Extras Dust Jacket; Dust Jacket Cover
Personal Details
Store History Book Club
Purchase Price $10.80
Rating 0
Links Library of Congress
Loaned To Robert Hill
Loan Date 2011122212/22/2011
Overdue No
Product Details
LoC Classification D805.J3 .Z364 2010
Dewey 940.54/7252092
ISBN 9781400064168
Edition [1st ed.]
Cover Price $27.00
First Edition Yes
Rare No
Notes/Review
One of the first lessons learned in creative writing is that there are three basic kinds of conflict: man vs. man, man vs. nature, and man vs. himself. This story has large portions of all three. Man vs. nature when Zamperini and the other survivors were adrift in a rubber raft in the vast ocean. Man vs. himself as he struggled to maintain sanity in that raft. Man vs. man when facing the depredations of life as a POW under the Japanese boot. The book runs the gamut of human emotion.

The only shortfall, and it is minor, is the lack of a bibliography. It is well end-noted, but I've come to appreciate a nice bibliography that might point me to other worthwhile books without having to dig through 50 pages of end notes.

Highly recommended.