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ISBN
0374272603
Book Title
Tears in the Darkness : the Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
Item Length
9.4 in
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication Year
2009
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.4 in
Author
Michael Norman, Elizabeth M. Norman
Genre
History
Topic
Military / World War II, Military / General
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
27.2 Oz
Number of Pages
480 Pages

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For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended with the surrender of 76,000 Filipinos and Americans, the single largest defeat in American military history. The defeat, though, was only the beginning, as Michael and Elizabeth M. Norman make dramatically clear in this powerfully original book. From then until the Japanese surrendered in August 1945, the prisoners of war suffered an ordeal of unparalleled cruelty and savagery: forty-one months of captivity, starvation rations, dehydration, hard labor, deadly disease, and torture--far from the machinations of General Douglas MacArthur. The Normans bring to the story remarkable feats of reportage and literary empathy. Their protagonist, Ben Steele, is a figure out of Hemingway: a young cowboy turned sketch artist from Montana who joined the army to see the world. Juxtaposed against Steele's story and the sobering tale of the Death March and its aftermath is the story of a number of Japanese soldiers. The result is an altogether new and original World War II book: it exposes the myths of military heroism as shallow and inadequate; it makes clear, with great literary and human power, that war causes suffering for people on all sides.

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374272603
ISBN-13
9780374272609
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71143210

Product Key Features

Book Title
Tears in the Darkness : the Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
Author
Michael Norman, Elizabeth M. Norman
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Military / General
Publication Year
2009
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Number of Pages
480 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.4 in
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
27.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
D805.P6n67 2009
Reviews
"No aspect of this battle or the infamous march that followed seems to have been overlooked. It is possible to buy volumes devoted to Bataan's nurses, its military chaplains and, in Hampton Sides's best-selling 2001 book,Ghost Soldiers, the men who rescued its survivors. It was not clear that this wall needed another brick. But then you pick up Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman's calm, stirring and humaneTears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath, and you think: yes, we needed another brick.Tears in the Darknessis authoritative history. Ten years in the making, it is based on hundreds of interviews with American, Filipino and Japanese combatants. But it is also a narrative achievement. The book seamlessly blends a wide-angle view with the stories of many individual participants. And at this book's beating emotional heart is the tale of just one American soldier, a young cowboy and aspiring artist out of Montana named Ben Steele . . . Mr. Norman is a Vietnam veteran and formerly a reporter forThe New York × Ms. Norman's books includeWomen at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam. In this book they step back, at regular intervals, to explain dispassionately what it was like to undergo the experiences these men went through. What are the physics of suffocation? How does a bomb blast actually kill a person? What exactly does lack of water do to a human body?Tears in the Darknessis a grim and comprehensive catalog of man's inhumanity to man. In the end, though,Tears in the Darknessis a book about heroism and survival. All along you are glued, out of the corner of your eye, to one story, Ben Steele's. If you aren't weeping openly by the book's final scenes, when he is at last able to call home and let his family know that he is still alive after more than three years 'missing in action,' during which time this thin young man lost 50 pounds, then you have a hard crust of salt around your soul." -Dwight Garner,The New York Times "Ben Steele, a young cowboy on his home range in Montana who had enlisted as a soldier in World War II, was caught up in the battle for Bataan in the Philippines, then in the ensuing death march as a prisoner of the Japanese, which he barely survived. Beginning with harrowing sketches of that experience, and in the course of various adventures and misadventures, he continued to draw and paint, and has since become a truly distinguished artist of the West.Tears in the Darknessis a well-told, well-researched, and moving narrative." -Peter Matthiessen, author ofShadow Country "Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath, by Michael Norman and Elizabeth Norman: A new account of the Bataan Death March, in which more than 70,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war were victims of appalling barbarism - a particularly grim episode of World War II following Japan's invasion of the Philippines. Driven from Manila into the hills of the Bataan peninsula, the combined Allied forces fought without hope of reinforcement or escape until they had no choice but to capitulate. The largest surrender in U.S. military annals was followed by a forced 60-mile march along Luzon's main highway during which more than 10,000 of the POWs were summarily murdered or died from torture, wounds and disease. For Americans the Death March was a first encounter with the brutality that would define Japan's military behavior, and the fact that the story has been told many times before does not dissuade Michael and Elizabeth Norman, both professors at New York University, from another effort. The result is an extremely detailed and thoroughly chilling treatment that, given the passage of time and thinning of ranks,
Copyright Date
2009
Lccn
2008-047163
Dewey Decimal
940.54/7252095991
Dewey Edition
22

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  • by baysaltbeardie
    Mar 12, 2010

    Great history, great research, great characters

    I thought this was a really good book. It made me feel like I understood a little of what it was like to really be there instead of it just being a recitation of historical facts or a romanticized version of war. It made you see how some people's humanity made the difference between life and death for others and also how conditions were such that sometimes people had to do things that seemed inhuman just to survive. I liked how it showed the war from the Japanese soldiers perspective as well as from the perspective of US and Phillipino soldiers. I felt like I got to know some of the people who were there. It gave you an idea of how people come to hate each other and also how people can let go of some of the hate. I bought the book because I was acquainted with Ben Steele (whose story ...

  • by mistyderby
    May 08, 2010

    remember the POWs

    I bought this book because I am interested in history. Particularly WW2. I saw an interview with the authors and my interest was peaked. I think it was a good idea to follow one solder and see the war through his experience and his eyes. I feel a book of this kind should be required reading for all Americans. To understand at what cost is our freedom. The book itself is well written and an easy read. As I read it I felt as though I was absorbing his experience. After reading the book I now understand more of how judgements can be made. The book made my feelings of awe and respect for these extraordinary men and women deepen.

  • by qO-0cZ-SRMi@Deleted
    Aug 07, 2009

    A better understanding of both sides.

    There have been many recounts of the "Bataan Death March" but this book goes great lengths to personalize the accounts of what happened, and also gives a better understanding of why. Parts of this book are lessons in social studies, parts are lessons in history, and other parts are just plain gut wrenching. What in the past we were taught was good, was not always good and what we were taught was bad, was not always bad. "Tears in the Darkness" is both enlightening and painful but I am so glad I read it.

  • by dewilliam6
    Oct 16, 2018

    Tears in the darkness

    Best book I ever read and Ben Steele, who the book was based on, autographed my book!

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: discover-books

  • by angar-7300
    Jul 27, 2020

    Great Book in Excellent Condition

    Great book. I would highly recommend. Was in excellent condition.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: discover-books

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