Description

ISBN: 9781732517240 by Kayleen Reusser

“No one can imagine what it is like to be interned in a prison camp for three years, to be beaten and tortured, worked to the point of exhaustion daily and to live in filth and disease. I was one of the few who marched into one of those hellholes and marched out, a survivor.”

These grim words from a Bataan Death March American soldier tell the true story of what prisoners of war – many of them teens – experienced from 1941-1945.

Other stories in this volume include: the radio operator of a B-17 on a prison ship with 1,800 ill men; a sailor escaping from his Japanese captors, only to be betrayed back into their hands; a ball turret gunner who dared to escape, not once but four times from his German captors.

Kayleen Reusser, author of books on World War II, has interviewed veterans of the war who endured starvation, abuse, isolation, brutal work conditions in inclement weather and other life-threatening conditions as prisoners of war. These stories will inspire patriotism and love of country as none other.