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Originally Posted by daca55
 I read it and it was an eye opener to me as far as how the Japanese treated POW's. What Louie Zamperini went through and survived is amazing. I doubt that many of us today would be able to endure the torture and starvation he and all the Japanese held POW's went through. I definitely would recommend this book. It is no wonder it has been on the NY Best Sellers List for as long as it has. |
If you liked
Unbroken you might like this other book
Ship of Ghosts: the Story of the USS Houston. It was a fascinating book with some connections to the movie
The Bridge on the River Kwai which from the book
Ghost was full of many factual holes.
The USS Houston took FDR on various travels in the last 5 years of the 1930s, then was a Flag Ship, and finally met its fate in a horrific and very one sided battle with the Japanese navy.
USS Houston (CA-30) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Many of the survivors of this sea battle-- The Battle of Sunda Strait
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sunda_Strait -- wound up on the railline depicted in the
Kwai movie. This railroad also had terrible conditions for the prisoners.