Tears In The Darkness — The Story Of The Bataan Death March and It's Aftermath

By Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. NormanHardcover, 463 PagesCopyright 2009 by Michael Norman and Elizabeth Norman Proceeds from this book sale go towards the AUSA Scholarship Fund 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