American POWs in World War II : twelve personal accounts of captivity by Germany and Japan / Harry Spiller.
"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 b...
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| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland,
[2009], ©2009.
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| Physical Description: | x, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
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American prisoners of war in World War Two. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Gunnery Sergeant Edward Sturgeon, captured while in defense of Wake Island
- Sergeant Alvel L. Stricklin, captured during the Battle of the Bulge
- Technical Sergeant Thomas Harold Boardman, captured during a bombing mission over Germany
- Private Benjamin Dunn, captured on Java Island during the Japanese invasion
- Sergeant William Robert Carr, captured after being shot down on a bombing mission over Germany
- Corporal Kenneth M. Smith, captured during the Battle of the Bulge
- Sergeant Charles Branum, captured during the fall of Bataan
- Technical Sergeant Gordon K. Butts, shot down over Mostar, Yugoslavia, during an air raid
- Staff Sergeant Edwin Douglass, Jr., captured in Nancy, France
- Corporal Ralph L. Lape, Sr., captured during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines
- Lieutenant Thomas J. Hart, captured during an offensive in Burma after being left for dead
- Staff Sergeant R.L. Hulsey, captured after being shot down over Solingen, Germany
- Appendix A. Japanese prisoner of war camps, 1941-1945
- Appendix B. Locations of German prison camps
- Appendix C. German regulations concerning prisoners of war.