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

New York: Random House, 2010. — 678 p.On 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 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.