by Leonard Pitts

Just two pages into the book "Unbroken," its protagonist is in the water, hiding beneath the deteriorating life raft in which he has been drifting across the Pacific Ocean for almost a month. Overhead, Japanese bombers are circling back to strafe him. Sharks are approaching from below.

Death is coming for him from two directions, and your impulse is to verify that this is not a novel, not some fiction from the Indiana Jones School of Narrow Escapes.

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