A Civilian Prisoner of Japan in the Philippines
This compelling first-person account reveals the horrible conditions, executions and miraculous rescue of the thousands of American civilians—men, women and children—imprisoned in the Philippines by troops of the Empire of Japan in World War II.
Bringing this dramatic chapter in the American experience to life, this historical narrative provides the human, military and political context of how these American civilians were initially abandoned by their government but finally rescued through the direct efforts of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and several remarkable U.S. military operations.