Too Dead to Die: A Memoir of Bataan and Beyond - Hardcover

Steve Raymond And Mike Pride

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0979078407 ISBN 13: 9780979078408

Publisher: Plaidswede Publishing Co., 2006

Synopsis

Thousands of men died on the Bataan Death March, and thousands more perished in Japanese prison camps during the war. Steve Raymond survived. Too Dead to Die tells how Raymond did it and what he witnessed. The book began with a diary that Raymond kept as a prisoner. From the brutality of the Death March to the horrors of a Hell Ship to the destruction of Japanese cities to the joy of liberation, Too Dead to Die takes readers on one man's harrowing, death-defying journey. The 'good war' of our popular imagination disappears when we confront the harsh realities men like Steve Raymond experienced in World War II. And we are all the better for it. This is a riveting narrative, one man's desperate struggle for survival in the midst of the greatest crisis in human history. -- Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker, Florentine Films

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"The 'good war' of our popular imagination disappears when we confront the harsh realities men like Steve Raymond experienced in World War II. And we are all the better for it. This is a riveting narrative, one man's desperate struggle for survival in the midst of the greatest crisis in human history." -- Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker, Florentine Films.

About the Author

Steve Raymond graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in journalism and began a career as a newspaper editor on Florida s West Coast. He started at the Tampa Times, owned and ran the weekly Palmetto News for more than three years and retired from the Tampa Tribune in 1978. Raymond was a charter member and twice the commander of the Florida chapter of the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor. He turned 90 years old on June 30, 2006, and lives with his wife Marie in Lecanto, Fla. Mike Pride is the editor of the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire s capital. He came to the Monitor in 1978 from Florida, where he began his career at the Tampa Tribune. A graduate of the University of South Florida, he has been a Nieman Fellow, was named Editor of the Year in 1987 by the National Press Foundation and is on the board that awards the Pulitzer Prizes. He is the co-author, with Mark Travis, of My Brave Boys: To War with Colonel Cross and the Fifth New Hampshire (University Press of New England, 2001) and the co-editor, with Felice Belman, of The New Hampshire Century (UPNE, 2001). Pride lives with his wife Monique in Concord.

About this edition

• Publisher: Plaidswede Publishing Co.
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0979078407
• ISBN 13: 9780979078408
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 214
• Illustrator: Charlotte Thibault, Cover, Ben Steele, Drawings.