Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945 - Brossura

Glusman, John A.

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ISBN 10: 0142002224 ISBN 13: 9780142002223

Casa editrice: Penguin Books, 2006

Riassunto

Traces the experiences of the author's father and three fellow Navy doctors who were captured during the World War II battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Phillippines, an event that united the men as allies as they attended patients under the brutal eye of their captors. Reprint. 45,000 first printing.

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“Page-turning.”—Wall Street Journal

"A thoughtful, humane meditation on war and family history, full of myth-bursting truths." —Kirkus Reviews

"Glusman has written a compelling account of courage and sacrifice from the perspective of the doctors who sought to keep their fellow captives alive under conditions that amounted to a mass sentence of death. Over a third of American POWs held by the Japanese died in captivity. With grace and clarity, Glusman gives a keen sense of loss to that statistic, and a heroic dignity to those who survived—a major achievement indeed." —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

"Original, moving, and astonishing." —Kenzaburo Oe, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

"Epic... A marvelously humane and beautifully rendered tribute." —San Francisco Chronicle

L'autore

John A. Glusman is editor in chief of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He has been a contributing editor to the Paris Review and has written for numerous publications, including The Economist, The Washington Post Book World, The Christian Science Monitor, and Rolling Stone.

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• Editore: Penguin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0142002224
• ISBN 13: 9780142002223
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 624