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Summary: Sadness and Triumph -- Personal
Review: This book is at the top of my favorite's list of "personal narratives" of the appalling treatment of American and Filipino POWs by the Japanese. Lester Tenney is a true product of his time; depression-era, pre-war America. How fate casts him into the hands of the US Army and his Japanese captors is fascinating. Tenney does a fine job keeping his story factual but letting the emotions seep through. One of many such tales, but a good one
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Summary: Every American should read this book!
Review: This is the fifth book I have read about the Bataan Death March, and it is, without question, the best of the bunch. It is written with heart-wrenching stories so vivid you can almost feel the rifle butt slamming into your face too. You almost feel the heat of the tropical Philippine sun as the sick and dying men make their ill-fated trek out of Bataan. And you can almost smell the death in the air.Tenney does an excellent job of caputuring the unadulterated abuse suffered at the hands of the Japanese. The story culminates with the cruelest irony of all when Tenney finally returns home after three-and-a-half years of daily atrocities so horrific we almost become numb to them. Almost. I won't ruin the end of the book for you and if you don't want to know, don't read the inside jacket cover. But DO read this book. The pages turn themselves. I just can't figure out why this book hasn't been made into a movie. The story of the plight of the men in the Pacific theater during WWII has yet to be accurately told. Steven Spielberg! Listen up!
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