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Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath (Paperback)
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Short Description for Tears in the DarknessAn altogether new look at World War II that exposes the myths of war and the extent of suffering and loss on both sides.
Full description- Publisher: Picador USA
- Published: 02 March 2010
- Format: Paperback 463 pages
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- Categories: Asian History | Military History | Second World War
- ISBN 13: 9780312429706 ISBN 10: 0312429703
- Sales rank: 340,492
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Full description for Tears in the Darkness
For the first four months of 1942, American, Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought America's first major land battle of World War II: the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended with the single largest defeat in American military history. This was only the beginning. Until the Japanese surrendered in August 1945, the prisoners of war suffered forty-one months of unparalleled cruelty and savagery. Michael and Elizabeth Norman bring to the story remarkable feats of reportage and literary empathy. Their protagonist, Ben Steele, is a young cowboy and aspiring sketch artist from Montana who joins the army to see the world and ends up on a death march. Juxtaposed against Steele's story are the heretofore untold accounts of Japanese soldiers who struggled to maintain their humanity while carrying out their superiors' inhuman commands. "Tears in the Darkness "is an altogether new look at World War II that exposes the myths of war and shows the extent of suffering and loss on both sides.
