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Who Is Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken?
The biography “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand tells us the story of Louie Zamperini's life. Louie grew up in Torrance California and was a troublemaker as a child. His brother helped him to become an olympic runner while he was in high school. A short time before the 1940 Olympics in Tokyo Louie was drafted into WWII and trained to become a bombaired. Louie and his crew took part in many dangerous air raids. Then, one day Louie and his crew were called to help with a rescue mission when their plane failed mechanically and they crashed in the Pacific Ocean. Only Louie and one other survived the many weeks the spent adrift on an inflatable raft. The men spent many traumatic years in POW camps until the war was over and they were freed to go home

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