Recommended Reading

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

·         42 Months in Hell  by John B. Howell

·         Adapt or Die -a Former Japanese POW Tells All ,  by JD Merritt - click here for book information

·         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: a Survivor's Memoir   click here for information

·         Bataan Diary & And Somebody Gives a Damn (A companion book to Bataan Diary)  by Paul Ashton

·         Bataan Uncensored by Col. E. B. Miller of the 194th 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

·         Brothers from Bataan: POW's, 1942-1945  by Adrian R. Martin

·         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

·         Corregidor: From Paradise to Hell!  by Ben Waldron
 

·         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

·         Fall of the Philippines  by Louis Morton

·         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"

·         Ghosts of Canopus  by Everett M. Perry, nephew of S1c Paul Edward Perry, Based on the ship's War Diary - excellent - click here for website

·         Give Us This Day  by Sidney Stewart

·         A Gordon Highlander if I Ever Saw One by William Ross Young - see Young's Biography Page for book info

·         Guerrilla Daughter  by Virginia Hansen Holmes

·         Guests of the Emperor: the Secret History of Japan's Mukden POW Camp  by Linda Goetz 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

·         Hour of Redemption: The Heroic WW II Saga of America's Most Daring POW Rescue  by Forrest Johnson

·         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
   
•   Knights of Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes   by Lord Russell of Liverpool
   
•   Last Voyage of the Arisan Maru  by Dale Wilber - well researched, story of Pvt. Avery Wilber, Btry A, 60th CAC

·         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

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

·         My Hitch in Hell  by Lester Tenney

·         Never Will We Forget: Oral Histories of WWII  by Marilyn Mayer Culpepper (Frank Forsyth of Camp 17 is quoted often in this book)

·         No Ordinary Life: the True Story of a Dutch Girl and an American Marine  by Paula Boswell (an account from the "wife's side")

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

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

·         Of Rice and Men  by Chunn, Calvin Ellsworth  - Veteran's Publishing Company, 1946.
          (not to be confused by the Vietnam book with the same title)

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

·         Operation P.L.U.M. - The Ill-Fated 27th Bombardment Gr & the Fight for the Western Pacific  by Adrian R. Martin  Click here for website

·         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 

·         Rice, Men and Barbed Wire  by Arnold A. Bocksel

•  Saga of a Fortress  by James and William Belote
•  Rising From the Shadow of the Sun  by Herman de Jong, Ronny -  Click here for the author's webpage
      historical account of 4 years in the life of women and children under Japanese oppression on the island of Java, based on the author's mother’s diary 

·         Silent Tears: Lest We Forget  by Stanley Tokarz

·         Slaves of the Son of Heaven by R. H. Whitecross ~ Excellent, lots of names and incidents about Camp 17. Published in 1951.

·         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

·         Three came Home  by Agnes N. Keith - one of the best books on the subject of survival by a civilian POW internee.

·         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 see this page: Books - POW/Interment Camps in Asia -Credit: Tom Moore

     Please contact me if you have any trouble locating a copy of these great books!

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