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Old 10-06-2012, 09:03 AM
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Default Been listening to Unbroken on CD.
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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 Battle of Sunda Strait - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -- wound up on the railline depicted in the Kwai movie. This railroad also had terrible conditions for the prisoners.
It is like a lot of other stories but the hero is truly remarkable and Laura Hillenbrand does a great job in telling his story. You wonder how Louis Zamperini even survived his juvenile delinquency.