Pints & Pages Book Club: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

Name: Pints & Pages Book Club: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Start: 2024-05-30T17:30:00-04:00
Location: Red Heat Tavern of South Windsor

Schedule

Thu May 30 2024 at 05:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Red Heat Tavern of South Windsor | South Windsor, CT

Let’s discuss Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand. This book club is open to all. While this is a longer book than we typically choose for book club (475 pages), we hope you’ll join in! 5:30 happy hour special’s & socializing, 6:00 discussion. Separate checks provided.
About the book:
New York Times Bestseller. Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.
The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he’d been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.
Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.
Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in Seabiscuit. Telling an unforgettable story of a man’s journey into extremity, Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit.