Surviving Bataan and Beyond - Colonel Irvin Alexander's Odyssey As a Japanese Prisoner of War

Informationen zum Autor Col. Dominic J. Caraccilo has served three tours in Iraq as operations officer of the 101st Airborne Division and commander of an airborne battalion. A decorated combat veteran, he is a graduate of West Point and holds master's degrees from the Naval War College and Cornell. He is based out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Klappentext Deeply moving, intensely graphic account of World War II prisoners of war Includes a gut-wrenching description of the Bataan Death March Few American prisoners of war during World War II suffered more than the group that was captured on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines. The men were forced to endure the infamous Death March, a series of overcrowded prison camps, and the "hell ships" transporting them to Japan and Korea. Among them was Col. Irvin Alexander, who recounts his harrowing experience as a captive of the Japanese. As a midlevel commander, he knew the politics behind the surrender in April 1942, but he also suffered with the rest of the men through a horrific confinement. This is the story of one man's struggle to survive a brutal, often unfathomable captivity. Zusammenfassung Few American prisoners of war during World War II suffered more than those captured when the Philippines fell to the Japanese in April 1942. In a horrifying captivity that lasted until the war's end! US troops endured the notorious Bataan Death March! overcrowded prison camps! and the stinking "hell ships" that transported them to Japan and Korea.

Product details

• Authors: Col. Dominic J. Caraccilo, Dominic J. Caraccilo
• Assisted by: Dominic J. Caraccilo (Editor), Dominic J Caraccilo (Editor)
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780811732482
• ISBN: 978-0-8117-3248-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Stackpole Military History Series; Stackpole Military History; Stackpole Military History Series; Stackpole Military History
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration