Title:
As good as dead : the daring escape of American POWs from a Japanese Death Camp / Stephen L. Moore.
ISBN:
9780399583551
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : CALIBER, [2016]
Physical Description:
vi, 358 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
Part one: Bataan -- The death march -- Prisoners of the Rock -- Passage to Palawan -- Part two: Palawan -- Camp 10-A -- Palawan's "fighting one thousand" -- "We got the third and fourth degree" -- Escape and evasion -- Changing of the guard -- Code name "Red Hankie" -- Sub survivors and coastwatchers -- The Weasel and the Buzzard -- "Annihilate them all" -- The gauntlet -- Part three: Escape -- Hunted -- Fights and flight -- Swimmers and survivors -- Mac's odyssey -- Eleven against the elements -- Exodus from Brooke's Point -- The long road home -- Trials and tributes.
Summary:
Personal narratives of the eleven survivors of the Palawan massacre.
Geographic Term:
OCLC Number:
ocn952276152
Availability:
Lakeville - Heritage~1
