2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand
Relates the story of a U.S. airman who survived when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II, spent forty-seven days adrift in the ocean before being rescued by the Japanese Navy, and was held as a prisoner until the end of the war….
2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Shortlist
Colonel Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
Miranda Carter
Hitch-22: A Memoir
Christopher Hitchens
