Captured!

"No one can imagine what it is like to be interned in a prison camp for three years, to be beaten and tortured, worked to the point of exhaustion daily and to live in filth and disease. I was one of the few who marched into one of those hellholes and marched out, a survivor."These grim words from a Bataan Death March American soldier tell the true story of what prisoners of war - many of them teens -- experienced from 1941-1945. Other stories in this volume include:The radio operator...
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"No one can imagine what it is like to be interned in a prison camp for three years, to be beaten and tortured, worked to the point of exhaustion daily and to live in filth and disease. I was one of the few who marched into one of those hellholes and marched out, a survivor."These grim words from a Bataan Death March American soldier tell the true story of what prisoners of war - many of them teens -- experienced from 1941-1945. Other stories in this volume include:The radio operator of a B-17 on a prison ship with 1,800 ill men. Will his sickness prevent him from experiencing liberation?A sailor escaping from his Japanese captors, only to be betrayed back into their hands. Can he summon the fortitude to carry on through months of ill health, back-breaking work, and lack of food?A ball turret gunner who dared to escape, not once but four times from his German camps. Can he get a message to American forces before his prison is bombed?