Bataan Survivor A POW’s Account of Japanese Captivity in World War II / David L. Hardee ; [edited by] Frank A. Blazich, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardee, David L.

Series:

American military experience series.

American Military Experience Series

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st edition.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Columbia, MO : University of Missouri Press, 2016.

Summary:

A forgotten account, written in the immediate aftermath of World War II, which vividly portrays the valor, sacrifice, suffering, and liberation of the defenders of Bataan and Corregidor through the eyes of one survivor. The personal memoir of Colonel David L. Hardee, first drafted at sea from April-May 1945 following his liberation from Japanese captivity, is a thorough treatment of his time in the Philippines. A career infantry officer, Hardee fought during the Battle of Bataan as executive officer of the Provisional Air Corps Regiment. Captured in April 1942 after the American surrender on Bataan, Hardee survived the Bataan Death March and proceeded to endure a series of squalid prison camps. A debilitating hernia left Hardee too ill to travel to Japan in 1944, making him one of the few lieutenant colonels to remain in the Philippines and subsequently survive the war. As a primary account written almost immediately after his liberation, Hardee's memoir is fresh, vivid, and devoid of decades of faded memories or contemporary influences associated with memoirs written years after an experience. This once-forgotten memoir has been carefully edited, illustrated and annotated to unlock the true depths of Hardee's experience as a soldier, prisoner, and liberated survivor of the Pacific War.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826273598

0826273599

OCLC:

1015269522