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# 1 New York Times bestseller Unbroken has been hailed as the Best Nonfiction Book of the Year by TIME magazine. It is the winner of multiple book of the year awards, including the Los Angeles Times’ Book of the Year Award for Nonfiction. It has been acclaimed as one of the best books of the year by numerous book critics, including those at People, Amazon.com (#4), Publisher’s Weekly, the Chicago Sun-Times, Maureen Corrigan of NPR’s “Fresh Air,” and Barnes and Noble. Audible.com chose Unbroken as the Best Audiobook of the Year, biography and memoir. It has been on the New York Times bestseller list for eighty consecutive weeks, thirteen at #1.
“INSPIRING … EVOCATIVE … ALMOST TOO INCREDIBLE TO BE BELIEVED … a tale that will keep you glued to the pages, eagerly awaiting the next twist in the story … You’ll cheer … and you’ll want to share this book with everyone you know.” —Amazon.com, Spotlight selection, Book of the Month, November 2010, #4 on list of Ten Best Books of the Year.
“STAGGERING … MESMERIZING … Any one of the threads in Hillenbrand’s monumental new book could be a page-turner all its own… Hillenbrand’s writing is so ferociousl