by Laura Hillenbrand · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780812987119
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«Unbroken (Movie Tie-in Edition)» is the biography of Louis Zamperini by Laura Hillenbrand, in paperback (528 pages, in English).
It is the true story of Louis Zamperini, Olympic athlete and aviator in World War II. His bomber crashes in the Pacific and he spends forty-seven days adrift on a raft, among sharks and air attacks, until being captured by the Japanese Navy. The work narrates his captivity and his physical and mental resistance.
The work, originally published in 2010, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Indies Choice Book Award.
For readers interested in World War II, biographies of overcoming and true survival stories.
Laura Hillenbrand is an American author. Her two bestselling nonfiction books, Seabiscuit: An American Legend (2001) and Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2010), have sold over 13 million copies, and each was adapted for film. Her writing style is distinct from New Journalism, dropping "verbal pyrotechnics" in favor of a stronger focus on the story itself.
