Carol F. (cactusflowerwomen) reviewed on 10/24/2012 + 628 more book reviews

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I have read very few books about the Bataan Death March, but this one is fantastic. It tells the true story of Major Ed Dyess a fighter pilot, and 9 other miitary men from different services, and the horror of the death march , their imprisonment in Davpeco (a Japanese penal colony), and then of their escape and their meeting up with filipino guerillas and others fighting against the hated Japanese. Then it details what happened when the first of them finally got back to America anxious to let America know of the brutality of the Japanese, and to fight to get their other POW comrades rescued, and the political red tape they rec'd from MacArthur, and FDR. Infuriating, but not totally a one-sided account of the help they rec'd from the filipinos. GREAT BOOK!

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