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Bataan Death March

Autor: William E. Dyess, Stanley L. Falk

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Editura: University of Nebraska Press

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The hopeless yet determined resistance of American and Filipino forces against the Japanese invasion...

Informații despre carte

Autor

William E. Dyess, Stanley L. Falk

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2002

Pagini

196

EAN

9780803266339

ISBN

0803266332

Enbook ID

04923912

Editura

University of Nebraska Press

Greutate

227

Dimensiuni

140 x 216 x 17

Descriere completă

The hopeless yet determined resistance of American and Filipino forces against the Japanese invasion has made Bataan and Corregidor symbols of pride, but Bataan has a notorious darker side. After the U.S.-Filipino remnants surrendered to a far stronger force, they unwittingly placed themselves at the mercy of a foe who considered itself unimpaired by the Geneva Convention. The already ill and hungry survivors, including many wounded, were forced to march at gunpoint many miles to a harsh and oppressive POW camp; many were murdered or died on the way in a nightmare of wanton cruelty that has made the term "Death March" synonymous with the Bataan peninsula. Among the prisoners was army pilot William E. Dyess. With a few others, Dyess escaped from his POW camp and was among the very first to bring reports of the horrors back to a shocked United States. His story galvanised the nation and remains one of the most powerful personal narratives of American fighting men.Stanley L. Falk provides a scene-setting introduction for this Bison Books edition. William E. Dyess was born in Albany, Texas. As a young army air forces pilot he was shipped to Manila in the spring of 1941. Shortly after his escape and return to the United States, Colonel Dyess was killed while testing a new airplane. He did not survive long enough to learn that he had been awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor. Stanley L. Falk is a former chief historian of the U.S. Air Force and professor of international relations at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He is the author of numerous works, including "Bataan: The March of Death".