Ronald E Marcello Edited (2 results)

dark red & silver metallic decorative full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (FPu1994 & NAP). endpaper maps. xxxvii+286p. 2 additional b&w maps. bibliography. index. world history. world war ii. memoirs. biography. autobiography. imperial japan. american history. POW. ~ '' I was going to come back come hell or high water . . . . I was criticized one time by our lieutenant for digging in garbage cans. I told him, 'I'm sorry. I may be a Marine, and I may be disgracing the Marines as far as you are concerned, but I made up my mind, with the will of the Lord, that I'm coming back any way I can. I'm hungry and I'm going to find something to eat.' " ~ Private Karl Bugbee, from With Only the Will to Live. Of the 25,000 Americans held prisoner in the Pacific during World War II, over 40 percent died in captivity. Only those with luck and a tremendous will to live ever made it home. Surprisingly, however, no book has yet tried to convey, in the survivors' own words, the full range of what these servicemen went through. But now their astonishing stories are finally told in With Only the Will to Live: Accounts of Americans in Japanese Prison Camps, 1941~ 1945. Historians Robert S. La Forte, Ronald E. Marcello, and Richard L. Himmel have selected the accounts of 52 individuals from interviews with well over 150 survivors. Telling of their surprise at "losing" to the enemy, brutal treatment by guards, constant battles with hunger and disease, use as slave labor, and unflagging refusal to give in, the men who were there paint a vivid picture of every stage of their ordeal. And, unlike memoirs by single individuals, the numerous accounts in With Only the Will to Live together give a view of many different camps and kinds of treatment the thousands of POWs were subjected to. From the jungles of Burma to the coal mines of Nagasaki, from rice patties in the Philippines to air raids in Kawasaki, With Only the Will to Live conveys the wide variety of experiences the American prisoners endured. Their understated heroism, and the shocking conditions that tested it, is now fully recorded in a volume that will thrill history buffs with its immediacy and inspire all readers with its demonstration of what the human spirit can conquer.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. F/F. Bright and beautiful hardcover with dust jacket. "Readers will feel as if they were at the scene." Booklist. Very nice copy.