Unbroken : A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2019) and the desire to change

and the desire to change

A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence

extols their resilience and perseverance

which he “had to” win or face certain political death

giri (social obligation)

Unbroken : A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2019) and the desire to changeOn a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War. The lieutenants name was Louis Zamperini.