After Seabiscuit, the four-legged runner, Lauren Hillenbrand's newest book is about Olympic runner Louis Zampolini.

"In her long-awaited new book, seven years in the making, Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in her blockbuster bestseller, Seabiscuit.  Telling an unforgettable story of a man’s journey into extremity, Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit."

Hailed by the NYT as #1 new non-fiction, the book is an exciting page-turner, showing Zampolini's survival of some of the worst WW2 Japanese POW camps and his goal of returning to running.  If you're looking forward to summer reading about a true hero instead of an anti-hero, read this book! WARNING: This is NOT light summer reading, however, and involves sadistic prison guards and descriptions of torture.

Hillenbrand is one of the most outstanding writers of non-fiction, going directly to people and documents, her books are among the most solidly documented one can find.  Footnotes are reserved for the ends of the chapters, however, and do not interfere with the narrative flow of this amazing story.