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Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath (Hardcover)

By: Elizabeth M. Norman (Author) and Michael Norman (Author)


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A MAJOR NEW BOOK ABOUT WORLD WAR I I, IN THE TRADITION OF "ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT "AND "HIROSHIMA" For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese

soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle

of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of

Bataan. It ended with the surrender of 76,000 Filipinos and

Americans, the single largest defeat in American military history.

The defeat, though, was only the beginning, as Michael and

Elizabeth M. Norman make dramatically clear in this powerfully original

book. From then until the Japanese surrendered in August

1945, the prisoners of war suffered an ordeal of unparalleled

cruelty and savagery: forty-one months of captivity, starvation

rations, dehydration, hard labor, deadly disease, and torture--far

from the machinations of General Douglas MacArthur.

The Normans bring to the story remarkable feats of reportage

and literary empathy. Their protagonist, Ben Steele, is a figure out

of Hemingway: a young cowboy turned sketch artist from Montana

who joined the army to see the world. Juxtaposed against

Steele's story and the sobering tale of the Death March and its

aftermath is the story of a number of Japanese soldiers.

The result is an altogether new and original World War II book:

it exposes the myths of military heroism as shallow and inadequate;

it makes clear, with great literary and human power, that

war causes suffering for people on all sides

Annotation

This stunning, in-depth account of one of the most horrific chapters of World War II history tells of the experiences of over 70,000 American and Filipino soldiers who had surrendered to the Japanese army during the Battle of Bataan in 1942. These soldiers experienced starvation, disease, torture, and forced labor, and many died before they were liberated at the end of the war. Michael and Elizabeth Norman tell the story through the focus of Ben Steele, an American soldier, as well as through the memories of those from both sides whom they interviewed for this well-researched, well-told military history.



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