Bibliograph

As good as dead, the daring escape of American POWs from a Japanese Death Camp, Stephen L. Moore

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As good as dead, the daring escape of American POWs from a Japanese Death Camp, Stephen L. Moore

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-347) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

As good as dead

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

952276152

Responsibility statement

Stephen L. Moore

Sub title

the daring escape of American POWs from a Japanese Death Camp

Summary

Personal narratives of the eleven survivors of the Palawan massacre

Table Of Contents

Part one: Bataan -- The death march -- Prisoners of the Rock -- Passage to Palawan -- Part two: Palawan -- Camp 10-A -- Palawan's "fighting one thousand" -- "We got the third and fourth degree" -- Escape and evasion -- Changing of the guard -- Code name "Red Hankie" -- Sub survivors and coastwatchers -- The Weasel and the Buzzard -- "Annihilate them all" -- The gauntlet -- Part three: Escape -- Hunted -- Fights and flight -- Swimmers and survivors -- Mac's odyssey -- Eleven against the elements -- Exodus from Brooke's Point -- The long road home -- Trials and tributes

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