SEABISCUIT
Copyright © 2010 by Laura Hillenbrand
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Hillenbrand, Laura.
Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption / Laura Hillenbrand.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-679-60375- 7
1. Zamperini, Louis, 1917– 2. World War, 1939–1945—Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 3. Prisoners of war—United States—Biography. 4. Prisoners of war—Japan—Biography. 5. World War, 1939–1945— Aerial operations, American. 6. World War, 1939–1945—Campaigns—Pacific Area. 7. United States. Army Air Forces. Heavy Bombardment Group, 307th. 8. Long-distance runners—United States—Biography. I. Title.
D805.J3Z364 2010
940.54?7252092—dc22
[B] 2010017517
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—Walt Whitman, “The Wound-Dresser”
CONTENTS
PART I
Chapter 1. The One-Boy Insurgency
Chapter 2. Run Like Mad
Chapter 3. The Torrance Tornado
Chapter 4. Plundering Germany
Chapter 5. Into War
PART II
Chapter 6. The Flying Coffin
Chapter 7. “This Is It, Boys”
Chapter 8. “Only the Laundry Knew How Scared I Was”
Chapter 9. Five Hundred and Ninety-four Holes
Chapter 10. The Stinking Six
Chapter 11. “Nobody’s Going to Live Through This”
PART III
Chapter 12. Downed
Chapter 13. Missing at Sea
Chapter 14. Thirst
Chapter 15. Sharks and Bullets
Chapter 16. Singing in the Clouds
Chapter 17. Typhoon
PART IV
Chapter 18. A Dead Body Breathing
Chapter 19. Two Hundred Silent Men
Chapter 20. Farting for Hirohito
Chapter 21. Belief
Chapter 22. Plots Afoot
Chapter 23. Monster
Chapter 24. Hunted