Some Survived
An Eyewitness Account of the Bataan Death March and the Men Who Lived through It
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2004
Summary
Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old Army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders came to surrender to the Japanese forces invading the Philippine Islands. The next day, he and his fellow American and Filipino prisoners set out on the infamous Bataan Death March–a forced six-day, sixty-mile trek under a broiling tropical sun during which approximately eleven thousand men died or were bayoneted, clubbed, or shot to death by the Japanese. Yet terrible as the Death March was, for Manny Lawton …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781565124349 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1565124340 |
| Author: | Manny Lawton, John Toland |
| Publisher: | Workman Publishing |
| Imprint: | Algonquin Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2004 |
| Weight: | 413g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm |
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“Shows that the human spirit can soar like an eagle from the depths of hell on earth.” – Charleston News Courier
“Shows that the human spirit can soar like an eagle from the depths of hell on earth.” –Charleston News Courier
About The Author
Manny Lawton
Manny Lawton graduated from Clemson College and joined the United States Army as an officer in 1940. He spent three and a half years as a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea before liberation in 1945. He lived in his hometown of Estill, South Carolina, until his death in 1986.
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