Laura Hillenbrand Unbroken Author Rule 5

Laura Hillenbrand, Author of Seabiscuit and Unbroken

The film Unbroken, while accurate, is an abridged version of the book.  

Here is a Hillenbrand interview

Seabiscuit

Louis Zamperini, looking out of a hole in his B-24.  Not too long after this his plane crashed and he was on a life raft for 47 days living on rainwater, albatrosses and the occasional fish. 

Laura Hillenbrand, who has a chronic illness, researched both these books 

from her townhouse in D.C.

In 1936 Zamperini steals flag off the Reich Chancellery

Louis Zamperini and Laura Hillenbrand

Louis Zamperini and Billy Graham, 1949

Louis Zamperini with his wife Cynthia married in 1946

Mutsuhiro "The Bird" Watanabe was a vicious tormentor of Zamperini and other American POWs. He managed to avoid capture and was given a general pardon with other war criminals in the fifties.

Rule 5 and FMJRA