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Unbroken

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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

Interview with NPR (11/20/10)
Interview with Wall Street Journal (11/12/10) - includes photos of Zamperini plus a timeline
Laura Hillenbrand developed chronic fatigue syndrome in college and rarely leaves her house. She did most of her research by phone and online, and she didn't meet Louis Zamperini in person until October 2011.

Fox News video on Louis Zamperini (12/23/10)
Timeline of Zamperini's life
Google Earth blog post about a map of places in Zamperini's life ... includes a link to download the Google Earth map file
Other books about POWs in Pacific in WWII:

Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle (novel; made into movie) ... Thailand-Burma railroad
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax (memoir/autobiography) ... Changi Prison, Singapore and Thailand-Burma railroad
King Rat by James Clavell (of Shogun fame) (novel based on personal experience; made into movie) ... Changi Prison, Singapore
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard (novel based on personal experience; made into movie) ... Shanghai, China
Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides (history) ... rescue of Bataan Death March survivors in Philippines
The Jungle is Neutral by Spencer Chapman (history) ... soldier hiding in jungle of Malaysia

Pierre Boulle wrote The Planet of the Apes as well as Bridge Over the River Kwai
The Railway Man is currently being filmed starring Colin Firth & Rachel Weisz. There was also a documentary called Enemy, My Friend? that followed Lomax as he met and was reconciled with his Japanese torturer in 1993. I couldn't find it available on Netflix or anywhere online, though.