Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

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Louie runs with torch: Louis Zamperini, telephone interview; Chris Boyd, “Legendary Zamperini Carries the ‘Eternal Flame,’ ”

Palos Verdes Peninsula News

, March 5, 1998; R. J. Kelly, “Olympic Torch Relay Rekindles Ex-POWs Flame of Forgiveness,”

Stars and Stripes

, January 30, 1998; “Zamperini: War Survival Was a Matter of Miracles,”

Stars and Stripes

, January 26, 1998.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

LAURA HILLENBRAND is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Seabiscuit: An American Legend, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, won the Book Sense Book of the Year Award and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award, landed on more than fifteen best-of-the-year lists, and inspired the film Seabiscuit, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Hillenbrand’s New Yorker article, “A Sudden Illness,” won the 2004 National Magazine Award, and she is a two-time winner of the Eclipse Award, the highest journalistic honor in thoroughbred racing. She and actor Gary Sinise are the co-founders of Operation International Children, a charity that provides school supplies to children through American troops. She lives in Washington, D.C.

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Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Table of Contents

Cover

Other Books by This Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Map

Epigraph

Preface

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