Living in the Shadow of a Hell Ship: The Survival Story of U.S. Marine George Burlage, a WWII Prisoner-Of-War of the Japanesevolume 18

Book Overview

U.S. Marine George Burlage was part of the largest surrender in American history at Bataan and Corregidor in the spring of 1942, where the Japanese captured more than 85,000 troops. More than forty percent would not survive World War II. His prisoner-of-war ordeal began at Cabanatuan near Manila, where the death rate in the early months of World War II was fifty men a day. Sensing that Cabanatuan was a death trap, he managed to get transferred...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574418084
• ISBN13: 9781574418088
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: University of North Texas Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"