"Unbroken"

Our friend, Roger Kent, recommended a book to me that he read in just a couple of sittings because it was so riveting.  “Unbroken- A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption” by Laura Hillenbrand (the author of “Seabiscuit”) is the true story of Olympian Louis Zamperini and his ordeal as a prisoner of war of the Japanese in World War II.  I’m not a very fast reader, but this a book I finished in only a few days of reading.  Louie Zamperini was a lieutenant in the Army Air Force aboard a B-24 Liberator when his bomber crashed into the Pacific in 1943.  Author Hillenbrand really succeeded in telling a compelling story of true heroism in the face of the incredible cruelty and merciless humiliation our comrades in the Pacific faced during their captivity seventy years ago.

This amazing account is not only about the more-than-harsh circumstances that the former Olympic runner and other prisoners faced, and the realities they faced coming home after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and facing the nightmare of PTSD and all that goes with it, but with his life after attending one of the early Billy Graham crusades in Los Angeles in 1949.  I would encourage to you to pick up “Unbroken”, I’m certain you’ll enjoy reading it.  As they say, it’s available at your local bookstore, Amazon.com and also for electronic devices like Kindle and Sony eReader.