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Undefeated Americans - Couverture souple

Flanders, Sherrie M.

 
9781410739018: Undefeated Americans
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1410739015 ISBN 13 : 9781410739018
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2003

Synopsis

Each person during a lifetime encounters some adverse experience, and each reacts in a different way. Some people ignore what happens, hoping that it will go away. Others hide difficulty inside but dwell on it until it eats them alive. Then, there are those who prefer to talk about hardships or write about them so that those going through similar experiences can take hope or help from what others have suffered.¿Such is the case with Undefeated Americans by Sherrod M. Flanders.¿His three-and-a-half years as a Japanese prisoner-of-war during WorldWar II horrified the new high-school graduate as well as the reader who shares his experience secondhand. This fast-paced memoir takes the reader from Flanders' brief tenure in the Philippines through the Bataan Death March into the Japanese camp where these boys deal with sand fleas and Shakespeare, snow and mud, rice and more rice,and hunger and death. You will both laugh and cry as you watch these children become men, and you will rejoice when they are finally rescued at the end of the war. Although Pvt. Flanders is dead, his story is very much alive and relevant for a nation again under siege.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Each person during a lifetime encounters some adverse experience, and each reacts in a different way. Some people ignore what happens, hoping that it will go away. Others hide difficulty inside but dwell on it until it eats them alive. Then, there are those who prefer to talk about hardships or write about them so that those going through similar experiences can take hope or help from what others have suffered.¿Such is the case with Undefeated Americans by Sherrod M. Flanders.¿His three-and-a-half years as a Japanese prisoner-of-war during WorldWar II horrified the new high-school graduate as well as the reader who shares his experience secondhand. This fast-paced memoir takes the reader from Flanders' brief tenure in the Philippines through the Bataan Death March into the Japanese camp where these boys deal with sand fleas and Shakespeare, snow and mud, rice and more rice,and hunger and death. You will both laugh and cry as you watch these children become men, and you will rejoice when they are finally rescued at the end of the war. Although Pvt. Flanders is dead, his story is very much alive and relevant for a nation again under siege.

Biographie de l'auteur

Sherrod M. Flanders, a native of South Georgia, joined the Army Air Corps right out of high school. After completing training, he was sent to the Philippines in thePacific Theater. Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese began their assault on the Philippines. Following the fall of the Bataan Peninsulain the Philippines, he was captured and forced into the Death March of Bataan. He was a prisoner of war for three and one-half years. At the completion of World War II, he was released from Japan. He returned home and attended Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.¿He then met and married his wife and together they had two children. Sherrod died in December 1987 leaving behind an important story to be told for himself and all of his fellow soldiers. As with many others of his time, he did not talk about his experience. Instead, he chose to write the story that could not be discussed.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1410739015
ISBN 13 
9781410739018
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
296
Coordonnées du fabricant
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