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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the acclaimed author of Seabiscuit comes the incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: Unbroken and Unbroken: Path to Redemption. Extraordinarily moving.. a powerfully drawn survival epic. --The Wall Street Journal Hillenbrand s writing is so ferociously cinematic the events she describes so incredible you don t dare take your eyes off the page. --People TIME S TOP NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR - WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE In boyhood Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager he channeled his defiance into running discovering a prodigious talent that carried him to the Berlin Olympics. Then with the start of World War II the athlete became an airman. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean against all odds Zamperini survived. Ahead of him lay thousands of miles of open ocean leaping sharks a foundering raft thirst and starvation enemy aircra