Conduct Under Fire
Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945
$63.48
- Paperback
624 pages
- Release Date
25 April 2006
Summary
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 ofthe 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780142002223 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0142002224 |
| Author: | John A. Glusman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 25 April 2006 |
| Weight: | 573g |
| Dimensions: | 213mm x 140mm x 36mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“Page-turning.”—Wall Street Journal“A thoughtful, humane meditation on war and family history, full of myth-bursting truths.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Glusman has written a compelling account of courage and sacrifice from the perspective of the doctors who sought to keep their fellow captives alive under conditions that amounted to a mass sentence of death. Over a third of American POWs held by the Japanese died in captivity. With grace and clarity, Glusman gives a keen sense of loss to that statistic, and a heroic dignity to those who survived—a major achievement indeed.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
“Original, moving, and astonishing.” —Kenzaburo Oe, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
“Epic… A marvelously humane and beautifully rendered tribute.” —San Francisco Chronicle
About The Author
John A. Glusman
John A. Glusman is editor in chief of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He has been a contributing editor to the Paris Review and has written for numerous publications, including The Economist, The Washington Post Book World, The Christian Science Monitor, and Rolling Stone.
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