American POWs in World War II : twelve personal accounts of captivity by Germany and Japan / Harry Spiller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spiller, Harry, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners of war--United States--Biography.

Prisoners of war.

United States.

Prisoners of war--Germany--Biography.

Germany.

Prisoners of war--Japan--Biography.

Japan.

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Personal narratives -- American.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

x, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Other Title:

American prisoners of war in World War Two

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2009]

Summary:

"These 12 accounts describe hardship, brutality, frostbite, hunger, strenuous working conditions, and the release in the words of the soldiers, portraying the Bataan Death March, Wake Island, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, and the camps where they watched their comrades in arms suffer and perish. The book also features photographs, maps, camp lists, and POW regulations"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Gunnery Sergeant Edward Sturgeon, captured while in defense of Wake Island

Sergeant Alvel L. Stricklin, captured during the Battle of the Bulge

Technical Sergeant Thomas Harold Boardman, captured during a bombing mission over Germany

Private Benjamin Dunn, captured on Java Island during the Japanese invasion

Sergeant William Robert Carr, captured after being shot down on a bombing mission over Germany

Corporal Kenneth M. Smith, captured during the Battle of the Bulge

Sergeant Charles Branum, captured during the fall of Bataan

Technical Sergeant Gordon K. Butts, shot down over Mostar, Yugoslavia, during an air raid

Staff Sergeant Edwin Douglass, Jr., captured in Nancy, France

Corporal Ralph L. Lape, Sr., captured during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines

Lieutenant Thomas J. Hart, captured during an offensive in Burma after being left for dead

Staff Sergeant R.L. Hulsey, captured after being shot down over Solingen, Germany

Appendix A. Japanese prisoner of war camps, 1941-1945

Appendix B. Locations of German prison camps

Appendix C. German regulations concerning prisoners of war.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780786442751

0786442751

OCLC:

270109647