Review: The cost of freedom.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2013
amazon did it again! A BOOK I COULD NOT SET DOWN. This book was written by a Sergeant that lived through all the Japanese could give him and he survived it all, too write this book " THE BRAVE JAPANESE" The sergeant had better judgment then the General's on using proper artillery against the Tanks and overall defense than the General's. The General was fighting a new war with last war ideas. The sergeant paid a high price by suffering as a Prisoner of war throughout the entire war.Shipped to Thailand as slave labor he worked building a railroad and a bridge. The Japanese were more then hard on their labor they, were cruel and went out of their way to make everything hard for the labor. How a people can be like that is hard to understand but that is the way they did things. My neighbors Father was a prisoner at the same place and projects, he was a teenager in the Holland Army at the time and was captured about the same time. His stories are about the same as the Sergeants.I could go on forever but, reading the book is something everybody should do. I knew a few that survived  that tortures life and  served with some. In 9 days 72 men died from Cholera and that was just another day. Read this book, it is true and something we should remember. War is a terrible thing to go to. This book also has an ending that will really surprise you.Col. DeVere Woods Ret.