The Unbreakable Zamperini: A World War II Survivor's Brave Story

by Nel Yomtov (Author) Rafal Szlapa (Illustrator)

In the 1930s Louis Zamperini was a promising Olympic track athlete. But when World War II broke out, he enlisted and served as a bombardier with the U.S. Army Air Corps. In 1943 Zamperini miraculously survived when his bomber crashed in the Pacific Ocean. But that was just the beginning of his ordeal. After surviving for more than six weeks on a raft at sea, he was captured by Japanese forces and sent to a POW camp. For the next two years Zamperini endured brutal treatment at the hands of the Japanese officer who chose to make an example of him. But no matter how horrible things things became, Zamp refused to be broken. Learn all about Louis Zamperini and his unbreakable spirit as a prisoner of war in World War II.
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Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781543573138
Lexile Measure
620
Guided Reading Level
N
Publisher
Capstone Press
Publication date
August 01, 2019
Series
Amazing World War II Stories
BISAC categories
JNF025210 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States/20th Century
JNF025130 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Military & Wars
JNF062020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | History
Library of Congress categories
United States
World War, 1939-1945
Japan
Survival
Prisoners of war
Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
Aerial operations, American
Zamperini, Louis
Bomber pilots

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