false 6455003 1 <DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America’s first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended with the surrender of 76,000 Filipinos and Americans, the single largest defeat in American military history.<BR><BR>The defeat, though, was only the beginning, as Michael and Elizabeth M. Norman make dramatically clear in this powerfully original book. From then until the Japanese surrendered in August 1945, the prisoners of war suffered an ordeal of unparalleled cruelty and savagery: forty-one months of captivity, starvation rations, dehydration, hard labor, deadly disease, and torture—far from the machinations of General Douglas MacArthur.<BR><BR>The Normans bring to the story remarkable feats of reportage and literary empathy. Their protagonist, Ben Steele, is a figure out of Hemingway: a young cowboy turned sketch artist from Montana who joined the army to see the world. Juxtaposed against Steele’s story and the sobering tale of the Death March and its aftermath is the story of a number of Japanese soldiers.<BR><BR>The result is an altogether new and original World War II book: it exposes the myths of military heroism as shallow and inadequate; it makes clear, with great literary and human power, that war causes suffering for people on all sides <P></P></DIV> 6645242 9 6 2009 Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath total:54|5:29|4:19|3:6|2:0|1:0| 54 239 229 27 0 0 false false Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 16:04:42 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 16:07:00 -0700 2009 On Pear...more...]]> 5 4 false false Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 10:57:26 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 10:57:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 06:15:21 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 00:15:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 09:01:37 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 08:50:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 11:25:49 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 11:20:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 17:01:07 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 17:08:53 -0700 2009 The sacrifices that were made for America in this war, the atrocities suffered when leaders fail was a painful re...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Aug 24 08:32:05 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 08:37:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 07:00:58 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 18:17:07 -0700 2009 Tears in the Darkness, in the words and actions of the men and women who do the fighting and the dying. This book is gripping and moving. The Death Marc...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 22:55:24 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 18:41:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Jul 19 11:37:57 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 22:01:01 -0700 2009
He spoke some of his experience, bared much hatred for the "Japs", and was angered at how little respect and due...more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Sep 11 12:23:11 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 12:23:42 -0700 2009 considering 89 area soldiers were members of the 192nd Tank Battalion. This compelling story is accompani...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 15:02:54 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 15:06:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 07 14:48:37 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 14:53:08 -0800 2009 there is more meanness, cruelty and blind hatred under our thin skins than we'd like to think. It creates a lot of darkness and the best we can do is try and shine like stars amongst this dakness]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 30 14:49:16 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 14:50:34 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 09:14:53 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 18:05:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 30 17:45:49 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 17:46:59 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 14:46:35 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 11:07:45 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 20:10:32 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 20:11:45 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 10:16:11 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 10:22:34 -0700 2009 ]]> 0 0 false false Wed Jun 17 12:27:30 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 12:28:39 -0700 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/books/...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6455003