- Military History, Guerrillas, Escaped prisoners of war, Underground movements
Documents the escape of ten American prisoners of war from a World War II Japanese prison camp in the Philippines, describing the inhumane conditions they endured and the political struggle that influenced their return home.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- John D. Lukacs
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 433
- Publisher
- New American Library, Simon & Schuster
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780743262781
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