As good as dead : the daring escape of American POWs from a Japanese Death Camp / Stephen L. Moore.

Author
Moore, Stephen L. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First Edition.
Published/​Created
  • New York : Caliber, 2016.
  • ©2016
Description
vi, 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    Summary note
    Personal narratives of the eleven survivors of the Palawan massacre.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-347) and index.
    Contents
    • Part one : Bataan
    • The death march
    • Prisoners of the Rock
    • Passage to Palawan
    • Part two : Palawan
    • Camp 10-A
    • Palawan's "fighting one thousand"
    • "We got the third and fourth degree"
    • Escape and evasion
    • Changing of the guard
    • Code name "Red Hankie"
    • Sub survivors and coastwatchers
    • The Weasel and the Buzzard
    • "Annihilate them all"
    • The gauntlet
    • Part three : Escape
    • Hunted
    • Fights and flight
    • Swimmers and survivors
    • Mac's odyssey
    • Eleven against the elements
    • Exodus from Brooke's Point
    • The long road home
    • Trials and tributes.
    ISBN
    • 9780399583551 ((hardcover))
    • 0399583556 ((hardcover))
    LCCN
    2016029721
    OCLC
    952276152
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