TY - BOOK AU - Norman,Michael AU - Norman,Elizabeth M. TI - Tears in the darkness: the story of the Bataan Death March and its aftermath SN - 9780374272609 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - D805.P6 N67 2009 U1 - 940.54/7252095991 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus, and Giroux KW - Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942 KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese KW - Prisoners of war KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Philippines KW - Great Britain KW - Netherlands N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [423-436]) and index N2 - Following the U.S. surrender to the Japanese on the peninsula of Bataan in 1942, 76,000 American and Filipino POWs began the infamous Death March. This gripping narrative, told in unsparing but sympathetic detail, focuses intermittently on American POW Ben Steele, whose sketches adorn the book, and the hell of Japanese prison and labor camps that introduced these captives to the starvation, dehydration and murderous Japanese brutality that would become routine for the next three years ER -