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Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945
by Glusman, John A
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670034088
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034086
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking, 2005. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 588 pages. Bibliographic References, Selected Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. A history of captivity by the Japanese during World War II. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
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, Murray, 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,” and the daily struggles to tend the sick, wounded, and dying during some of the heaviest bombardments of World War II. Here also is the desperate war doctors and corpsmen waged against disease and starvation amid an enemy that viewed surrender as a disgrace. To survive, the POWs functioned 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. Like Flags of Our Fathers and Ghost Soldiers , Conduct Under Fire is a story of bravery on the battlefield and ingenuity behind barbed wire, one that reveals the long shadow the war cast on the lives of those who fought it.
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012315
- Title
- Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945
- Author
- Glusman, John A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670034088
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034086
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- World War II, POW's, Pacific Theatre
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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