A Christmas gift from my aunt, I started this book on the 24th December 2011 and finished it on the 31st December. It is the biography of Louis Zamperini, a 1936 Olympic athlete and considered to have the potential to break the then mythical 4-minute mile. The war against Japan in the Pacific thrashed that dream, and also his body and spirit. His weeks-long survival on a life raft  following the crash of his bomber and the months-long abuse at the hands of the brutish Mutsuhiro Watanabe, a POW camp corporal, read more like a work of fiction than fact.

Unbroken is unputdownable.