For those who have read UNBROKEN Hillenbrand's writing reads with such ease that you can rip the pages out as fast as you turn them, though you dare not. They are worth treasuring. I was so glad to have read Louie Samperini's story while he was still alive, all the while finding it/him hard to b...
I recommend this book for anyone interested in history and human nature. The author follows the trials and struggles, the hopes and hopelessness in the trip across America that has become famous for the group known as "the Donner Party." Not only is the story told, but facts about conditions whic...
I have always been fascinated by the journey of the Donner Party. I've read every book on it that I could find. I came to feel a kinship with those that came across the prairie and struggled, froze and starved during that winter of 1846. I felt I knew the families; the Breens, the Graves, the E...