Prisoner of war

Description:

Fifteen-year-old Henry Forrest lies about his age and enlists in the Marines to escape from his abusive father, but when he is immediately sent to the Philippines he finds himself in the middle of the Japanese invasion--and as he grows up he will have to endure the Bataan Death March, overcrowded prisons, and the Japanese factory in Tokyo where he is eventually sent as slave labor.

subjects: Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942,  Survival,  Forced labor,  Fiction,  World War, 1939-1945,  Japanese Prisoners and prisons,  Juvenile fiction,  History,  Children's fiction,  World war, 1939-1945, fiction,  Labor, fiction,  Japan, fiction,  Philippines, fiction

Places: Japan,  Philippines,  Tokyo (Japan)

Times: 1926-1945,  Japanese occupation, 1942-1945,  Bombardment, 1944-1945