Bernard T. Fitzpatrick

The Hike into the Sun

Memoir of an American Soldier Captured on Bataan in 1942 and Imprisoned by the Japanese Until 1945

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sergeant Bernard T. FitzPatrick endured the long and deadly hike to Japanese prisoner of war camps known as the Bataan Death March. In Japan he was forced to work at the Yawata Steel Works at Kokura--the original target of the Allies' second atomic bomb. FitzPatrick's service at Clark Field in the Philippines, the brutal fighting on Bataan, and the harrowing details of his time as a Japanese POW are detailed. Interspersed are his thoughts on U.S. preparations for the Pacific war, his Japanese captors, and the American, Filipino and Japanese men and women who risked their lives to ease the harsh conditions in the camps.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780786467761
• ISBN-10: 0786467762
• Artikelnr.: 35939053

Autorenporträt

The late Bernard T. FitzPatrick, a former insurance executive, lived in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Maps and Illustrations     
Acknowledgments     
Introduction: Hospital Train Homeward     
PART ONE: THE HIKE
1. Debacle at Clark Field     
2. Into the Breach     
3. They Shall Not Pass     
4. Rattrap on the Agno River     
5. Guarding the Calumpit Bridges     
6. Into Bataan     
7. The First Line     
8. Withdrawal     
9. The Second Line     
10. Of Malaria and Iguanas     
11. Last Days     
12. Surrender     
13. The Hike Begins     
14. Vitamin Sticks     
15. Vaya con Dios     
PART TWO: THE SAMURAI AND MACARTHUR
16. Survival of the Samurai     
17. Dishonor     
18. Attention     
19. Present Arms     
20. Parade Rest     
21. At Ease     
22. To Measure the Strength     
23. I Shall Return     
PART THREE: IN THE POKEY
24. Camp O'Donnell     
25. Building Bridges     
26. The Two Fiestas of San Isidro     
27. Calauan Revisited     
28. The Fair One     
29. Building More Bridges     
30. Cabanatuan Prison Camp Number One     
31. Breakout     
32. Heroes of Cabanatuan     
33. The Mass of the Blue Moon     
34. The Mayor of Bilibid     
35. Farm Days     
36. Major Smothers and the Smothers Brothers     
37. Shipping Out     
PART FOUR: TO JAPAN
38. Hell Ship     
39. Fukuoka Dai San     
40. The Trading Game     
41. The Lone Ranger     
42. The Voice of the Crane     
43. Yasumi     
44. Major Rikitaki Surrenders     
45. Pere Rene Roullier     
46. Sayonara     
Selected Bibliography     
About the Authors     
Index