TY - BOOK N2 - Following the U.S. surrender to the Japanese on the peninsula of Bataan in 1942, 76,000 American and Filipino POWs began the infamous Death March. This gripping narrative, told in unsparing but sympathetic detail, focuses intermittently on American POW Ben Steele, whose sketches adorn the book, and the hell of Japanese prison and labor camps that introduced these captives to the starvation, dehydration and murderous Japanese brutality that would become routine for the next three years. AB - Following the U.S. surrender to the Japanese on the peninsula of Bataan in 1942, 76,000 American and Filipino POWs began the infamous Death March. This gripping narrative, told in unsparing but sympathetic detail, focuses intermittently on American POW Ben Steele, whose sketches adorn the book, and the hell of Japanese prison and labor camps that introduced these captives to the starvation, dehydration and murderous Japanese brutality that would become routine for the next three years. T1 - Tears in the darkness :the story of the Bataan Death March and its aftermath / DA - 2009. CY - New York : AU - Norman, Michael, AU - Norman, Elizabeth M. ET - 1st ed. CN - D805.P6 CN - D805.P6 PB - Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, PP - New York : PY - 2009. ID - 338572 KW - Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942. KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Prisoners of war KW - Prisoners of war KW - Prisoners of war KW - Prisoners of war SN - 9780374272609 (alk. paper) SN - 0374272603 (alk. paper) TI - Tears in the darkness :the story of the Bataan Death March and its aftermath / ER -