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Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old Army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders came to surrender to the Japanese forces invading the Philippine Islands. The next day, he and his fellow American and Filipino prisoners set out on the infamous Bataan Death March--a forced six-day, sixty-mile trek...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lawton, Manny, 1918-1986 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books, 1984.
Subjects:
Lawton, Manny, > 1918-1986.
Lawton, Manny, > 1918-1986
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Philippines.
Prisoners of war > United States > Biography.
Prisoners of war > Philippines > Biography.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Prisonniers et prisons des japonais.
Prisonniers de guerre > Philippines > Biographies.
Internment camps
Prisoners of war
Philippines
United States
Amerikanischer Kriegsgefangener
Pazifikkrieg > 1941-1945
Erlebnisbericht
Provinz Bataan
Internment camps > Philippines.
World War > 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons.
1939-1945
Biography
Biographies
Personal narratives > American
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • The fall of Bataan
  • The Death March
  • Camp O'Donnell
  • Cabanatuan
  • Move to Davao
  • Davao Penal colony (DAPECOL)
  • Red Cross packages
  • Ten men escape
  • Another escape
  • Back to Cabanatuan
  • Tragedy at sea
  • Ordeal by water
  • Hell ship # 1 : the Oryoku Maru
  • Hell ship # 2 : the Enoura Maru
  • Hell ship # 3 : the Brazil Maru
  • Japan at last
  • The last move.