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Summary:

Following the U.S. surrender to the Japanese on the peninsula of Bataan in 1942, 76,000 American and Filipino POWs began the infamous Death March. This gripping narrative, told in unsparing but sympathetic detail, focuses intermittently on American POW Ben Steele, whose sketches adorn the book, and the hell of Japanese prison and labor camps that introduced these captives to the starvation, dehydration and murderous Japanese brutality that would become routine for the next three years.

Table of Contents:

• Ghosts
• Going to ground
• More like a hired hand
• Hawk Creek
• Leaving
• Whiskey, wages, and the kindness of strangers
• Making magic
• One last look
• " A final determination"
• Imagine, after everything, this.

Author/Creator:

Norman, Michael, 1947 October 2-

Contributors:

Norman, Elizabeth M.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Tears in the darkness: the story of the Bataan Death March and its aftermath [by Norman, M.]

Subjects:

Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942

World War, 1939-1945 — Prisoners and prisons, Japanese

Prisoners of war — United States — History — 20th century

Prisoners of war — Philippines — History — 20th century

Prisoners of war — Great Britain — History — 20th century

Prisoners of war — Netherlands — History — 20th century

Bataan Death March (Philippines : 1942)

World War (1939-1945)

1900-1999

Prisoners of war

United States

Great Britain

Netherlands

Philippines

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [423-436]) and index.

Physical Description:

463 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

D805.P6 N67 2009

ISBNs:

9780374272609 (hardcover, alk. paper)
0374272603 (hardcover, alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2008047163

OCLC Numbers:

263984541