Unbroken. Laura Hillenbrand

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      LAURA HILLENBRAND

      

       Unbroken

      An Extraordinary True Story of

       Courage and Survival

       Copyright

      First published in Great Britain in 2011 by

       Fourth Estate An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.4thestate.co.uk

      Originally published in the United States by Random House in 2010

      Copyright © Laura Hillenbrand 2010

      The right of Laura Hillenbrand to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

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      HB ISBN 9780007378012

       TPB ISBN 9780007386642 Ebook Edition © NOVEMBER 2010 ISBN: 9780007378029 Version: 2018-07-06

       For the wounded and the lost

       What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, Of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

      —Walt Whitman, “The Wound-Dresser”

      CONTENTS

       Title Page

Copyright

PREFACE

PART I

One The One-Boy Insurgency

Two Run Like Mad

Three The Torrance Tornado

Four Plundering Germany

Five Into War

PART II

Six The Flying Coffin

Seven “This Is It, Boys”

Eight “Only the Laundry Knew How Scared I Was”

Nine Five Hundred and Ninety-four Holes

Ten The Stinking Six

Eleven “Nobody’s Going to Live Through This”

       PART III

       Twelve Downed

       Thirteen Missing at Sea

       Fourteen Thirst

       Fifteen Sharks and Bullets

       Sixteen Singing in the Clouds

       Seventeen Typhoon

       PART IV

       Eighteen A Dead Body Breathing

       Nineteen Two Hundred Silent Men

       Twenty Farting for Hirohito

       Twenty-one Belief

       Twenty-two Plots Afoot

       Twenty-three Monster

       Twenty-four Hunted

       Twenty-five B-29

       Twenty-six Madness

       Twenty-seven Falling Down

       Twenty-eight Enslaved

       Twenty-nine Two Hundred and Twenty Punches

       Thirty The Boiling City

       Thirty-one The Naked Stampede

       Thirty-two Cascades of Pink Peaches