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Long Hard Road: American POWs During World War II by Thomas Saylor (Hardcover, 2007)

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Between 1941 and 1945 more than 110,000 American marines, soldiers, airmen, and sailors were taken prisoner by German, Italian, and Japanese forces. Most who fought overseas during World War II weren't prepared for capture, or for the life-altering experiences of incarceration, torture, and camaraderie bred of hardship that followed. Their harrowing story -- often overlooked in Greatest Generation narratives -- is told here by the POWs themselves. Long hours of inactivity followed by moments of sheer terror. Slave labour, death marches, the infamous hell ships. Historian Thomas Saylor pieces together the stories of nearly one hundred World War II POWs to explore what it was like to be the guest of the Axis Powers and to reveal how these men managed to survive. Gunner Bob Michelsen bailed out of his wounded B-29 near Tokyo, only to endure days of interrogation and beatings and months as a special prisoner in a tiny cell home to seventeen other Americans. Medic Richard Ritchie spent long moments of terror locked with dozens of others in an unmarked boxcar that was repeatedly strafed by Allied forces. In the closing chapter to this moving narrative, the men speak of their difficult transition to life back home, where many sought -- not always successfully -- to put their experience behind them.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.
ISBN-13
9780873515979
eBay Product ID (ePID)
91919189

Product Key Features

Book Title
Long Hard Road: American Pows During World War Ii
Author
Thomas Saylor
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Government, History
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
296 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
155mm
Item Width
230mm
Item Weight
654g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Thomas Saylor
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States