Unbroken Book Review Essay

In my exploration of WWII, I decided to read the book Unbroken. The story was about an Olympic runner who ended up fighting in the Pacific Theater of WWII as a bombardier. During a search mission, his plane faulted resulting in an Odyssey across the shark infested waters. After surviving the painfully brutal waters, Louis, the main character, gets captured and forced under the Japanese which ends up shedding a whole new light on POWs of Japan. I was able to immerse myself into the brutality of the Japanese guards changing my mindset on the entire scenario in which the Americans were fighting. This recount of the journey showed the cruelty of Japanese. Guards within the facility would torment the POWs, beating them, mocking them, and worst of all, humiliating them. As Louis stated, the humiliation was worse than the starvation, the dehydration, and even the loneliness of his miraculous journey after being stuck on a raft in the Pacific Ocean. It caused them to lose hope, …show more content…
Within this book, the Americans were island hopping on the islands they controlled, trying to get closer and closer to the Japanese mainland. But it was the islands they controlled them. Some islands were unfit for aircraft runways as being too short. This caused the Americans to either improvise, by adding materials into the ocean to lengthen the island, or to not use it at all. Another difficulty these islands possessed was the distance between them. Between American controlled islands and Japanese controlled islands, were vast amounts of water infested with sharks.This proved to be dangerous since the long distance meant a higher chance for an engine failure, especially with the B-24. Pilots could also get lost since all they saw was water, resulting in many lost airplanes. It was said in the book that for every man who died from Japanese attacks, 5 men died from the bomber

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