Living in the Shadow of a Hell Ship: The Survival Story of U.S. Marine George Burlage, a WWII Prisoner-Of-War of the Japanesevolume 18
(Part of the North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series Series)
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U.S. Marine George Burlage was part of the largest surrender in American history at Bataan and Corregidor in the spring of 1942, where the Japanese captured more than 85,000 troops. More than forty percent would not survive World War II. His prisoner-of-war ordeal began at Cabanatuan near Manila, where the death rate in the early months of World War II was fifty men a day. Sensing that Cabanatuan was a death trap, he managed to get transferred...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1574418084
ISBN13:9781574418088
Release Date:August 2020
Publisher:University of North Texas Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"
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