| Winking at Death Memoir of a World War II POW | | | Author:
| Lawlis, Merritt E. | | ISBN: | 978-1-4343-9429-3 | | Publication Date: | Sep 2008 | | Publisher: | AuthorHouse
| | Book Format: | Paperback | | List Price: | USD $17.99 | Book Description:
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Merritt Eugene Lawlis (Gene, as he is known to family and friends) was a prisoner of the Japanese toward the end of World War II on Hainan Island, China. He and two others from a crew of five were shot down in their B-25 and captured by the Japanese. After five months of near starvation and frequent beatings, they were saved by the dropping of the two atomic bombs. Yet why they survived (and not others) has haunted Gene ever since.
In Winking at Death he reflects on his own experiences as a POW, and examines the accounts of other POWs, in an attempt to make sense of what survival means in POW life. In the midst of the all-pervasive fear, for example, he discovers t | |