Some Survived (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781565124349)

Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old Army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders came to surrender to the Japanese forces invading the Philippine Islands. The next day, he and his fellow American and Filipino prisoners set out on the infamous Bataan Death March--a forced six-day, sixty-mile trek under a broiling tropical sun during which approximately eleven thousand men died or were bayoneted, clubbed, or shot to death by the Japanese. Yet terrible as the Death March was, for Manny Lawton and his comrades it was only the beginning. When the war ended in August 1945, it is estimated that some 57 percent of the American troops who had surrendered on Bataan had perished.

Author: Manny Lawton
ISBN-10: 1565124340
ISBN-13: 9781565124349
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2004
Pages: 295
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.45h x 5.58w x 0.98d