The Normans bring to the story remarkable feats of reportage and literary empathy. Norman make dramatically clear in this powerfully original book.įrom then until the Japanese surrendered in August 1945, the prisoners of war suffered an ordeal of unparalleled cruelty and savagery: 41 months of captivity, starvation rations, dehydration, hard labor, deadly disease, and torture-far from the machinations of General Douglas MacArthur. The defeat, though, was only the beginning, as Michael and Elizabeth M.
It ended with the surrender of 76,000 Filipinos and Americans, the single largest defeat in American military history. For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan.
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