" Unbroken", A Book You Should Read

Did you read the book, "Seabiscuit", by Laura Hillenbrand? Wasn't it great? They made a movie based on the book and it, too, was well done.
Well, I think Ms. Hillenbrand has outdone herself. The book titled, "Unbroken" exceeded my wildest expectations. Lizzie read it seven months ago and raved.
It's the story of Louis Zamperini who was born in New York in 1917 to Italian immigrant parents. Because of some health issues Louis' parents were forced to seek a better climate for his breathing problems and settled in Torrance, California. As a youngster Louis was always in trouble with his parents, the neighbors and the police. This kid was trouble. If it wasn't for his older brother, Pete, the story would have ended. But Pete saw something in Louis and goaded his high school principal into letting Louis become a member of the track team. Without going into great detail Louis became the greatest high school track star in California history up to that time. By the time Pete was 19 he was attending the Univ. of Southern California on a track scholarship and became the youngest person to run in the Munich Olympic Games in 1936.
If you think this review is about complete you don't know MJ Hawkeye because it's not a sports story.
World War II begins and Louis is sent to the Pacific Theater. One day, in 1943, while searching for a downed aircraft over the ocean his plane goes down. Louis and two other survivors float around for some forty-seven days before being captured by the Japanese. That's when the real hell begins. How Zamperini and the other POW's held in the Japanese camps and those who survived is beyond belief. After returning from the War he went through his own inner turmoil; became a drunk and shiftless nothing even those he had a wife and daughter to support. This post war trauma lasted a couple of years. Then and epiphany took place. He dedicated his life to his wife and--dare I write it-----through the help of Billy Graham, to God.
Here's the deal. You should go to your library and get the book. If you appreciate things to put on your den shelves with hard covers purchase the book. Look at it this way. If you have guests over for dinner some evening and the conversation is worse than boring you'll have Louis Zamperini to talk about for hours.
It's going to be tough to make a movie centered around this story. I hope they don't try.