https://summaryshelf.app/authors/laura-hillenbrand/Recent content in Laura Hillenbrand on SummaryShelfHugoen-usSun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://summaryshelf.app/unbroken/Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://summaryshelf.app/unbroken/<p>Naoetsu prison camp, summer 1945. A sergeant the prisoners called the Bird handed Louie Zamperini a six-foot wooden beam, ordered him to hold it overhead, and posted a guard to club him if his arms dropped. Louie&rsquo;s arms went numb and his thoughts came apart until one sentence was left in him: <em>He cannot break me.</em> When Watanabe finally knocked him down, another prisoner checked the camp clock. Thirty-seven minutes.</p>