Sentences with phrase «survive as a prisoner of war»

Angelina Jolie's Unbroken tells the story of Olympic long - distance runner and Air Force bombardier Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O'Connell), and his struggles to survive as a prisoner of war of the Japanese before the end of the war.

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The book revolves primarily around Rosenbaum, a Jewish partisan fighter who survived European combat in World War II but became a prisoner of war as a result of later combat in PalestiWar II but became a prisoner of war as a result of later combat in Palestiwar as a result of later combat in Palestine.

(As the extermination and cremation area, Camp III was under heavy guard and cut off from the rest of the camp; its inhabitants could not take part in the well - known prisoner revolt of October 1943, when about 300 inmates managed to escape — most were later caught and did not survive the war.)

Angelina Jolie's second film as director tells the extraordinary story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic long - distance runner who fought as a bombardier in the second world war and survived 47 days adrift after being shot down over the Pacific before being taken prisoner by the Japanese.