Unbroken_ A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption - Laura Hillenbrand [236]
34 The Bird refuses to see Louie: Draggan Mihailovich, email interview, August 3, 2007.
35 Watanabe dies: Yuichi Hatto, written interview, July 16, 2004.
36 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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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
Chapter 19. Two Hundred Silent Men
Chapter 20. Farting for Hirohito
Chapter 21. Belief
Chapter 22. Plots Afoot
Chapter 23. Monster
Chapter 24. Hunted
Chapter 25. B-29
Chapter 26. Madness
Chapter 27. Falling Down
Chapter 28. Enslaved
Chapter 29. Two Hundred and Twenty Punches
Chapter 30. The Boiling City
Chapter 31. The Naked Stampede
Chapter 32. Cascades of Pink Peaches
Chapter 33. Mother’s Day
PART V
Chapter 34. The Shimmering Girl
Chapter 35. Coming Undone
Chapter 36. The Body on the Mountain
Chapter 37. Twisted Ropes
Chapter 38. A Beckoning Whistle
Chapter 39. Daybreak
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Author