Recommended Reading

Titles are in alphabetical order
Note: Titles in blue refer to POW life in Fukuoka Camp 17 and/or are by Camp 17 POW's

• 42 Months in Hell  by John B. Howell

• An Angel's Illustrated Journal  by Floramund F. Difford   Click here for photo of Linda and author

• Andy Andrews POW - 152 by Austin Andrews Jr. and Austin (Andy) Andrews Sr.   Click here for authors and photos

• Baby of the Bataan: Memoir of a 14 Year Old Soldier in World War II  by Joseph Quitman Johnson
       (click on title for more information and photos)   click here for photo of Joe Johnson at a book signing

• Bataan Uncensored by Col. E. B. Miller of the 194 th Tank Battalion

• The Battle of Bataan: A History of the 90 Day Siege and Eventual Surrender of 75,000 Filipino and United States Troop
       to the Japanese in World War by Donald Young
   

• Beyond Courage: One Regiment Against Japan  by Dorothy Page

• But Deliver Us From Evil, Father Duffy and the Men of Bataan" by Dan Murr   Click here for book cover/review

• Carlos, A Tale of Survival  by J. L. Kunkle

• Code Name: High Pockets,  True story of Claire Phillips, an American Mata Hari, and the WWII Resistance Movement in the Philippines"
      by Edna Binkowski

• Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945
       by John A. Glusman   Click here for photo of author

• Corregidor: The American Alamo of World War II  by Eric Morris
   

• Dawn of darkness  by Lee Brandenberg and Matt Isaacs

• The Death March  by Stanley L. Falk

• Death March: The Survivors of Bataan by Donald Knox

• Death on the Hellships  by Greg Michno

• Father Found  by Duane Heisinger

• First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War
       by George Weller and Anthony Weller  (New Release December 2006, click on title for more info)
       This book has many FIRST HAND interviews with POW's from Camp 17 upon liberation.   also by Weller& Weller:

• Ghost Soldiers  by Hampton Sides    Click here for photo of author, Linda and ghost soldier

• Give Us This Day  by Sidney Stewart

• Guerrilla Daughter  by Virginia Hansen Holmes

• Hell and Beyond: A Diary of War and Captivity - Josiah Worthington  Compiled and Edited by Frances Worthington Lipe
       Click here for author and photo

• Hell's Guest  by Glenn Frazier  Glenn's Page click here

• Horyo  by Ret. Major Richard Gordon

• I Came Back From Bataan by James D. Gautier and R. L. Whitmore   (see Biography Page for Gautier's Biography)

• I Served on Bataan  by Juanita Redmond, LT. , A.N.C. (1943)

• Keep The Men Alive: Australian POW doctors in Japanese captivity  by Rosalind Hearder

• Late Summer of 1941 and My War With Japan by Weldon Hamilton   (see Biography Page for Hamilton's Biography)

• Letters Home  by Maxwell M. Andler, Jr. - Edited by Valeda Andler   Click here for recent photo

• Life as an American Prisoner of the Japanese by Charles Balaza   (see Biography Page for Balaza's Biography)

• The Long Hard Road  by Thomas Saylor  Click here for book information

• No time for Geishas  by Geoffrey Pharaoh Popham (British officer) 1970 copyright

• My Father's Captivity  by Al Young  Click here for Book Homepage

• No Uncle Sam: The Forgotten of Bataan by Tony Bilek

• Oh God, Where Are You?  by Abie Abraham  see Related Links  or click here for Abie's Page

• Prisoners of the Japanese by Gavan Daws (one of the best!) Click here for a review

• Rising Sun Over Bataan: Memoirs of War  by Horacio Montoya

 

• Silent Tears: Lest We Forget by Stanley Tokarz

• Slaves of the Son of Heaven by R. H. Whitecross

• Soldier Slaves: Abandoned by the White House, Courts and Congress  by James W. Parkinson & Lee Benson

• Some Survived  by Manny Lawton

• Spirit of the Canopus: the war diary of a sailor and a lucky old lady  by Everett Marion Perry

• Surrender and Survival  by E. Bartlett Kerr

• Survivor: The incredible true story of American patriot, Msgt. Frank N. Lovato, Bataan Death March survivor and POW of the Japanese
     by Francisco L. Lovato   (click here for book homepage)

• Under the Samurai Sword  by C. M. Graham   (see Biography Page for Graham's Biography)

• Unjust Enrichment  by Linda G. Holmes  and  4,000 Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home by Linda G. Holmes

• We Band of Angels: the Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese 
       by Elizabeth M. Norman   Click here for recent photo of author

• We Refused to Die  by Camp 17 POW Gene Jacobsen

• Weller's War: A Legendary Foreign Correspondent's Saga of WWII on Five Continents (release date April 2009)
   
•  “…when men must die live”  by Kenneth B. Murphy and James T. Murphy (click here for Book interviews and photos)
   

• Zero Ward: A Survivor's Nightmare  by Murray Sneddon
   

• For more books about POW/Interment Camps in Asia see this page: http://www.cnac.org/emilscott/powbooks01.htm  Credit: Tom Moore

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