Tears in the darkness

Description:

Following the U.S. surrender to the Japanese on the peninsula of Bataan in 1942, 76,000 American and Filipino POWs began the infamous Death March. This gripping narrative, told in unsparing but sympathetic detail, focuses intermittently on American POW Ben Steele, whose sketches adorn the book, and the hell of Japanese prison and labor camps that introduced these captives to the starvation, dehydration and murderous Japanese brutality that would become routine for the next three years.

subjects: Prisoners of war,  Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942,  World War, 1939-1945,  History,  Japanese Prisoners and prisons,  nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2009-07-05,  New York Times bestseller,  World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, japanese

Places: United States,  Philippines,  Great Britain,  Netherlands

Times: 20th century