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Hutchinson’s One Book, One Community Committee did well in selecting its book for this year’s community read – “Ordinary Grace,” by William Kent Krueger. The ...

With Angelina Jolie in the director’s chair, ‘Unbroken’ is a biographical drama about Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic track star who was captured while fighting in World War II. Based on the book by ...

The 2002 film is one of the most influential comic book adaptations of all time ... the film follows two World War II veterans as they return home to Mississippi, one white and one Black.

Laura Hillenbrand's book "Unbroken" illustrates how a WWII POW in Japan (Louis Zamperini) is treated with physical and physiological horrific wrath by a Japanese corporal who even forty years later ...

(Lake Union Publishing via AP) This year the world will mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, when Japan formally surrendered ...

But it is likely far fewer know that he was also a World War II hero, and was nearly executed ... writer Shawn Seah has penned a new series of books for children, Our Amazing Heroes.