Douglas Valentine

The Hotel Tacloban: The Explosive True Story of One American's Journey to Hell in a Japanese POW Camp

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A very dramatic [and] compelling World War II story of murder, mutiny, and a military cover-up, from the author of The Phoenix Program (The New York Times). Captured by the Japanese while on patrol in the fetid jungles of New Guinea, Douglas Valentine's father, who'd enlisted in the US Army at age sixteen, was sent to a prison camp in the Philippines, where he was interned with Australian and British soldiers. The events that followed make up this well-told, chilling story of betrayal and brutality-a powerful tale of a son uncovering the traumatic events that shaped the rest of his father's life (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Not just… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-5040-5909-1
EAN: 9781504059091
Produktnummer: 31970103
Verlag: Open Road Media
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 190 S.
Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.3 cm x D1.1 cm 222 g
Gewicht: 222

Über den Autor

Douglas Valentine is the author of four books of historical nonfiction: The Hotel Tacloban, The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam, The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs, and The Strength of the Pack: The Personalities, Politics and Espionage Intrigues that Shaped the DEA. He is the author of the novel TDY, and a book of poems, A Crow's Dream. He is also the editor of the poetry anthology With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century. Valentine lives with his wife, Alice, in Massachusetts.