Some Survived: An Epic Account of Japanese Captivity During World War II - Hardcover

Lawton, Manny

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 091269713X ISBN 13: 9780912697130

Publisher: Algonquin Books, 1984

Synopsis

Recounts the horrors of the infamous Bataan Death March, his twenty-eight months of slave labor, and the inhuman transportation of war prisoners to Japan and Korea

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Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders came to surrender to the Japanese forces invading the Philippine Islands. The next day, he and his fellow American and Filipino prisoners set out on the infamous Bataan Death March—a forced six-day, sixty-mile trek under a broiling tropical sun during which approximately eleven thousand men died or were bayoneted, clubbed, or shot to death by the Japanese. Yet terrible as the Death March was, for Manny Lawton and his comrades it was only the beginning. When the war ended in August 1945, it is estimated that some 57 percent of the American troops who surrendered on Bataan had perished. This is the story of how men can suffer even the most desperate conditions yet, through their will to retain their humanity, triumph over appalling adversity. An epic of quiet heroism, Some Survived is a harrowing, poignant, and inspiring tale that lifts the heart.

About the Author

Manny Lawton graduated from Clemson College and joined the United States Army as an officer in 1940. He spent three and a half years as a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea before liberation in 1945. He lived in his hometown of Estill, South Carolina, until his death in 1986.

About this edition

• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 091269713X
• ISBN 13: 9780912697130
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 295