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In Enemy Hands

Personal Accounts of Those Taken Prisoner in World War II
  • ISBN-13: 9780811737586
  • Publisher: STACKPOLE BOOKS (NBN)
    Imprint: STACKPOLE BOOKS
  • By Claire Swedberg
  • Price: AUD $40.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 02/05/2018
  • Format: Paperback (227.00mm X 151.00mm) 308 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Second World War [HBWQ]
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In early 1942, following a string of successes, the Japanese seized nearly 10,000 American soldiers, among them Pvt. Oscar Smith, on Manila Bay and marched them to a near-certain death through Bataan. A few days later they put Smith to work burying the stacked bodies of his own men. Robert Salmon had already served his time in the military during World War I, fighting for his native England. He was teaching biochemistry to Chinese students in Shanghai when the Japanese arrested him in 1943 and condemned him, with thousands of confused Western missionaries, to spend the remainder of World War II in an abandoned tobacco factory. German soldiers, marching toward what would be known as the Battle of the Bulge, captured Ed Uzemack, a Chicago journalist turned soldier, at an abandoned Luxembourg inn. By cattle car they sent him to a crowded, wind-swept POW camp, once the final internment spot for Jewish concentration camp victims. In 1945 Hermann Pfengle, just fifteen years old, had been released from German mil
Claire E. Swedberg is a journalist whose expriences include reporting for newspapers and television. She earned her degree at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, where she studied journalism and English with a comprehensive in writing
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