Tears in the darkness
Subtitle: the story of the Bataan Death March and its aftermath
By: Michael Norman   and Elizabeth M. Norman.
Contributors: Norman, Elizabeth M.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9780374272609
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
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.