Author:
Norman, Michael, 1947 October 2-
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009.
Description463 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Ghosts -- Going to ground -- More like a hired hand -- Hawk Creek -- Leaving -- Whiskey, wages, and the kindness of strangers -- Making magic -- One last look -- "A final determination" -- Imagine, after everything, this.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [423-436]) and index.
Note:Following the U.S. surrender to the Japanese on the peninsula of Bataan in 1942, 76,000 American and Filipino POWs began the infamous Death March. This gripping narrative, told in unsparing but sympathetic detail, focuses intermittently on American POW Ben Steele, whose sketches adorn the book, and the hell of Japanese prison and labor camps that introduced these captives to the starvation, dehydration and murderous Japanese brutality that would become routine for the next three years.
