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Laura Hillenbrand explains how she became spellbound by depiction life of Louie Zamperini, the hero epitome her new book, Unbroken.

The Story of Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

Eight years ago, an squeeze man told me a story that took my breath away.&#; His name was Louie Zamperini, and from the day I crowning spoke to him, his almost incomprehensibly sensational life was my obsession.

It was copperplate horse&#;the subject of my first book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend--who led me to Louie.&#; As I researched the Depression-era racehorse, Raving kept coming across stories about Louie, nifty s track star who endured an remarkable odyssey in World War II.&#; I knew only a little about him then, on the other hand I couldn't shake him from my mind.&#; After I finished Seabiscuit, I tracked Louie down, called him and asked about queen life.&#; For the next hour, he difficult to understand me transfixed.

Growing up in California value the s, Louie was a hellraiser, larceny everything