If you liked "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand...
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption tells the story of Louis Zamperini, whose plane was shot down over the Pacific during World War II. This biography, which was a bestseller for months after it was published in 2010, is in high demand again in the wake of the film version's release on Christmas Day 2014. Whether you enjoyed that story or are still waiting for a copy to get through the hold list, you might enjoy some of these similar titles.
Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945 by John A. Glusman. The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. In “Conduct Under Fire,” John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father, Murray, and three fellow Navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May 1942. Here are the dramatic stories of the fall of Bataan and the daily struggles to tend the sick, wounded and dying during some of the heaviest bombardments of World War II.
Devil at My Heels by Louis Zamperini with David Rensin. A former POW -- who is the subject of the bestselling “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand -- recounts his athletic southern California childhood, participation in the 1936 Olympics, imprisonment and torture by an abusive Japanese guard, descent into alcoholism and salvation by preacher Billy Graham.
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage by James Bradley. Bradley relates the story of eight American airmen who were shot down over Chichi Jima during World War II, one of whom was rescued and later became president of the United States, and the other seven who were captured by Japanese troops.
My Private War: Liberated Body, Captive Mind by Norman Bussel. In 1944, Norm Bussel found himself bailing out of a burning B-17 bomber just months after his 19th birthday. After touching down in a field outside Berlin, Norm was immediately seized by local farmhands. For the next year, Norm would struggle to survive at the hands of the Nazis as a prisoner of war. The rage and emotional turmoil he suffered during that year of hell would follow him home, denying him the peace and stability he and his loved ones longed for.
The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose. Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan. From the debacle in Bataan, to the miracle at Midway and the relentless vortex of Guadalcanal, their solemn oaths to their country later led one to the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot and the others to the coral strongholds of Peleliu, the black terraces of Iwo Jima and the killing fields of Okinawa, until at last the survivors enjoyed a triumphant, yet uneasy, return home.
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness by Tracy Kidder. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction of Columbia University, medical school and a life devoted to healing.
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