Some survived

Resource Information

The work Some survived represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Some survived

Creator

• Lawton, Manny, 1918-1986

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Lawton, Manny, 1918-1986
• Prisoners of war -- Philippines -- Biography
• Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Philippines
• Electronic books
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American

Genre

• Personal narratives, American
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders to surrender to the Japanese forces invading the Philippines arrived. The next day, he and his fellow American and Filipino prisoners set out on the infamous Bataan Death March-a forced six-day, sixty-mile trek under a broiling tropical sun during which approximately eleven thousand men died or were bayoneted, clubbed, or shot to death by the Japanese. As terrible as the Death March was, for Manny Lawton and his comrades it was only the beginning. When the war ended in August 1945, it is estimated that some 57 percent of the American troops who had surrendered on Bataan had perished. Yet this is not a chronicle of despair. It is, instead, the story of how men can suffer even the most desperate conditions and, in their will to retain their humanity, triumph over appalling adversity. An epic of quiet heroism with an introduction by historian John Toland, Some Survived is a harrowing and inspiring tale

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

940.54/7252/092

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult