Below is a summation of the members' reactions to this work.
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit, is the amazing true-life biography of Louis Zamperini, who overcame a wild childhood to run in the 1936 Olympics, survived his bomber's crash into the Pacific Ocean, survived more than 6 weeks on a life raft, and then managed to come out alive from the Japanese POW camps at the end of World War II.
When asked what they remembered most from reading this incredible account of Zamperini's life, they commented:
"The cover--'survival, resilience, redemption'";
"Our hero should be God";
"Billy Graham";
"skateboarding in his 80s";
"When he said as a POW, 'I'd rather be back on the raft.'"'
"The calmness and beauty on the raft when he was at death's door";
"That he was able to figure out when the raft should reach land, the 46th or 47th day";
"The good that came from the rest of his life";
"That it wasn't boring, I felt like I was there."
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