Of Rice and Men: From Bataan to V-J Day, a Survivor's Story (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780359589883)

At the fall of Bataan on April 9 1942, over sixty thousand American and Filipino troops were rounded up by the Japanese and forced to march 65 miles from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, to San Fernando, Pampanga, in Central Luzon. Anyone showing a slight weakness to walk was instantly bayoneted in the back. Estimates of the number of total deaths from the march range from 5,000 to 8,000. Thousands more later died from malnutrition and disease in the abject conditions of the Japanese POW camps. One of the fortunate survivors was Sergeant Bob Reynolds who penned his combat memoir Of Rice and Men in 1947. With a cool, philosophical perspective, he details the harrowing experience, from bitterly defending Bataan on starvation rations, through the many atrocities of the March, and finally his miraculous survival in Cabanatuan POW Camp and, later, in Manila's Bilibid Prison.

Author: Bob Reynolds
ISBN-10: 035958988X
ISBN-13: 9780359589883
Publisher: Lulu Press
Language: English
Published: 04/13/2019
Pages: 116
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d