Belly of the Beast
A POW's Inspiring True Story of Faith, Courage, and Survival Aboard the Infamous WWII Japanese Hell Ship Oryoku Maru
The Belly of the Beast (is)...a searing tribute...(to) America in its bleakest hour. -Senator John McCain, author New York Times bestseller Faith of My FathersOn December 13, 1944, POW Estel Myers was herded aboard the Japanese prison ship, the Oryoku Maru, with more than 1,600 other American captives. More than 1,100 of them would be dead by journey's end...The son of a Kentucky sharecropper and an enlistee in the Navy's medical corps, Myers arrived in Manilla shortly before the bombings of Pearl Harbor and the other six targets of the Imperial Japanese military. While he and his fellow corpsmen tended to the bloody tide of soldiers pouring…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-62681-291-8
- EAN: 9781626812918
- Produktnummer: 31906634
- Verlag: Diversion Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
A graduate of Michigan State University, Judith L. Pearson has written nearly two decades worth of newspaper and magazine articles, and has published three books. Her biography of Virginia Hall, Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy, has garnered great interest from Hollywood, and her book, It's Just Hair: 20 Essential Life Lessons, is a 2012 International Book Award finalist.
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