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Tears in the Darkness
Michael Norman | Elizabeth M. Norman

Tears in the Darkness

The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (Jun 09, 2009)
9780374272609
| Hardcover
480 pages | 155 x 239 mm | USA | English
$ 30.00 | Value: $ 30.00
Dewey 940.54725209599
LC Classification D805.P6 .N67 2009
LC Control No. 2008047163

Genre

  • History

Subject

  • 1940s
  • American Colonization of the Philippines, 1898-1946
  • American History
  • Commonwealth of the Philippines, 1935-1946
  • Empire of Japan, 1868-1947
  • Pacific Theater of World War II
  • Philippine Islands
  • Twentieth Century (1900s)
  • World War II, 1939-1945

Plot

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.