Inside the Bataan Death March: Defeat, Travail and Memory

by Kevin C. Murphy

Book Overview

For two weeks during the spring of 1942, the Bataan Death March--one of the most widely condemned atrocities of World War II--unfolded. The prevailing interpretation of this event is simple: American prisoners of war suffered cruel treatment at the hands of their Japanese captors while Filipinos, sympathetic to the Americans, looked on.

Most survivors of the march wrote about their experiences decades after the war and a number of factors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786496819
• ISBN13: 9780786496815
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher