American POWs in World War II
Subtitle: twelve personal accounts of captivity by Germany and Japan
By: Harry Spiller.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780786442751
Subjects: Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography; Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography; Prisoners of war -- Japan -- Biography; World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German; World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
Genres: Biography.; Personal narratives, American.
Description: "These 12 accounts describe hardship, brutality, frostbite, hunger, strenuous working conditions, and the release in the words of the soldiers, portraying the Bataan Death March, Wake Island, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, and the camps where they watched their comrades in arms suffer and perish. The book also features photographs, maps, camp lists, and POW regulations"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Gunnery Sergeant Edward Sturgeon, captured while in defense of Wake Island; title: Sergeant Alvel L. Stricklin, captured during the Battle of the Bulge; title: Technical Sergeant Thomas Harold Boardman, captured during a bombing mission over Germany; title: Private Benjamin Dunn, captured on Java Island during the Japanese invasion; title: Sergeant William Robert Carr, captured after being shot down on a bombing mission over Germany; title: Corporal Kenneth M. Smith, captured during the Battle of the Bulge; title: Sergeant Charles Branum, captured during the fall of Bataan; title: Technical Sergeant Gordon K. Butts, shot down over Mostar, Yugoslavia, during an air raid; title: Staff Sergeant Edwin Douglass, Jr., captured in Nancy, France; title: Corporal Ralph L. Lape, Sr., captured during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines; title: Lieutenant Thomas J. Hart, captured during an offensive in Burma after being left for dead; title: Staff Sergeant R. L. Hulsey; title: Captured after being shot down over Solingen, Germany; title: Appendix A : Japanese prisoner of war camps, 1941-1945; title: Appendix B : approximate locations of prison camps; title: Appendix C. German regulations concerning prisoners of war.