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The book being reviewed is Unbroken An Olympian’s Journey from Airman to Captain to Captive is a memoir written by Laura Hillenbrand(2014). The book is about an Italian immigrant who moved to the United States named Louie Zamperini where he got drafted into the Air Force, crashed in a search and rescue mission, stranded in the ocean, was tortured in the Japanese in a Prisoner of war camp. When the war was finally overOlympicsand he got rescued along with all the people at the POW camp, he had to return to a normal lifestyle in the United States. I chose this book because I wanted to read about the experience that Louie went through during the time he was a POW.
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The book starts off in 1929 with the Zamperini family in their

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