Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese 1941 - 1945 [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Glusman, John A.

Edité par Viking, New York, 2005

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As new condition beige boards with a blue spine and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote; A Note on Names; Prologue; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; and Index. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates and a multi-page beginning section of maps. "Conduct Under Fire is a triumph. John Glusman has the historical breadth and literary grace of a William Manchester but has a modern evenhandedness all his own." - David Haward Bain, author. "The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese. In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father and three fellow Navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May 1942. Here are the dramatic stories of the fall of Bataan, the siege of "the Rock," the daily struggles to tend the sick, the wounded, and the dying, during some of the heaviest bombardments of World War II. Once captive, the doctors and corpsment waged a desperate war against disease and starvation for nearly three and a half years, amid an enemy who viewed surrender as a disgrace. To survive, the four POWs tried to function as a family. But the ties that bind couldn't protect them from a ruthless counteroffensive waged by American submarines or from the B-29 raids that burned Japan's major cities to the ground. Based on extensive interviews with American, British, Australian, and Japanese veterans, as well as diaries, letters, and war crimes testimony, this is a harrowing account of a brutal clash of cultures, of a race war that escalated into total war. Conduct Under Fire is a gripping chronicle of courage in captivity, of sacrifice and survival, and a son's moving tribute to his father." - from the inner front jacket flap. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John A. Glusman is editor in chief of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He has been a contributing editor to The Paris Review and has written for numerous publications, including The Economist, The Washington Post Book World, The Christian Science Monitor, and Rolling Stone. He lives in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, with his wife and three children.

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• Titre: Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese 1941 - 1945 [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
• Éditeur: Viking, New York
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: As New