Biography - third person - from Laura Hillenbrand's \"Unbroken\"
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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In the Predawn Darkness of August 26, 1929. In the back bedroom of a small house in Torrance California, A 12 year old boy sat up in bed listening. There was a sound coming from outside growing ever louder. It was a huge, heavy rush, suggesting immensity, a great parting of air. It was coming from directly above the house. The boy swung his legs off his bed, race down the stairs, slapped open the back door and Loped onto the grass. The yard was otherworldly, smothered in unnatural darkness, shivering with sound. The boy stood on the lawn beside his older brother, head thrown back spellbound. The sky had disappeared, an object that he could see only in silhouette reaching across a massive arc of space, was suspended low in the air over the house it was longer than 2.5 football fields, and as tall as a city it was putting out the stars. What he saw was the german dirigible graf Zeppelin At nearly 800 ft long 110 ft high. It was the largest flying machine ever crafted more luxurious in the finest airplane, gliding effortlessly over huge distances, built on a scale that left Spectators gasping. It was in the summer of 29, The Wonder of the World