Surviving Bataan and Beyond: Colonel Irvin Alexander's Odyssey as a Japanese Prisoner of War

Alexander, Irvin

ISBN 10: 0811715965 / ISBN 13: 9780811715966

Published by Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, 1999

About this Item

Top edge of text block lightly dusted.

Seller Inventory # 1161930

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Surviving Bataan and Beyond: Colonel Irvin Alexander's Odyssey as a Japanese Prisoner of War
• Publisher: Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811715965
• ISBN 13: 9780811715966
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: DJ Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • World War II

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Synopsis

Recounts the author's experience as a prisoner of war

Reviews

This is Col. Irvin Alexander's gripping memoir of the fall of the Philippines, the Bataan Death March, and his three and a half years as a prisoner of war during World War II. Originally written in 1949 but not published until now, Alexander's remarkable and chilling odyssey is told with clarity and stark realism. As a U.S. infantry officer assigned to the Philippine Army, Alexander was wounded in combat and decorated for heroism in the losing battle for Bataan. But the inevitable surrender to the Japanese was just the start of the nightmare. The brutality of the Death March was exceeded only by the horrors that awaited American POWs in fetid prison camps and ships. Starvation, disease, madness, and torture were the POWs' greatest enemies, and death was the only escape. This is an astonishing story of human suffering, courage, ingenuity, and hope. Its insight and imagery make it a superb example of one man's victory over despair. Strongly recommended for all libraries and historical collections.?Col. William D. Bushnell, USMC (ret.), Brunswick, ME
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