An American at War: Surviving Bataan, Mukden, and the Trauma of Recovery

by John Loughery

In 1939, a year before the draft was instituted in the United States, a twenty-year-old Connecticut native, Sigfried Schreiner, enlisted with friends from high school to serve in the Army Air Force. They were seeking adventure more than anything else. An imminent war in the Pacific was far from their thoughts. That changed in frightening ways on December 7, 1941. What followed was a costly four-month fight to hold the Japanese invaders back, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DQ9QVSYY
• ISBN13: 9798218564551
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Johnloughery
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"