Laura Hillenbrand's Unbrokn

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The Title of my book is UNBROKEN the Author of UNBROKEN is Laura Hillenbrand.The Publisher of UNBROKEN is Random House, UNBROKEN was published November 16, 2010 and there are 307 pages in UNBROKEN. UNBROKEN talks about a little boy named Louie Zamperini who would alway get in trouble. The reason why I decided to read UNBROKEN for my summer reading was because it sounded like it would be a good book to read over the summer. Laura Hillenbrand is the author of the 1# New York Times bestsellers UNBROKEN: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption and 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. She is serving as a consultant on the Universal Pictures feature film based on UNBROKEN. Hillenbrand’s New Yorker article, “A Sudden …show more content…

Who was born on January 26, 1917 and died on July 2, 2014. In The Book UNBROKEN louie lived in a small house in Torrance, California, a twelve-year-old boy sat up in bed, listening. Then was a huge, heavy rushing sound, growing ever louder, coming from directly above the house. The boy swung his legs off his bed, raced out the back door, and looped onto the grass. The yard was otherworldly, shivering with sound. The boy stood beside his brother, head thrown back, spellbound. The sky had disappeared. An object he saw only in silhouette, reaching across a massive arc of space, was suspended low over the house. It was longer than two and a half football fields and as tall as a city. It was putting out the stars. It was the German airship Graf Zeppelin. Nearly 800 feet long and 11o feet high, it was the largest flying machine ever crafted It was the wonder of the