
How long does it take to read Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption?
by Laura Hillenbrand
8h 40m
130,075 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 3 weeks.
That is 17 sessions with Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption.
Read it with the Guild45 minutes a day would finish it in about 12 days.
This estimate uses a representative 473-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.
How many words is Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption?
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption is about 130,075 words, estimated from its 473 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 8 hours 40 minutes.
We use 250 words a minute, not the 300 most calculators assume. A 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies puts silent adult reading nearer 238 for non-fiction and 260 for fiction.
How many pages is Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption?
- Catalog page count
- 473
- Edition ISBN
- 9781400064168
- Author
- Laura Hillenbrand
- Genre
- history, historical fiction, biography
These details come from the ReadersGuild catalog. Look up this edition on Google Books. The word count is estimated from pages, not counted from the text. Introductions, notes, and layout can affect the estimate.
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