A01=John M. Wright
Author_John M. Wright
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- ISBN 9780786442515
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Mar 2009
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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On graduating from West Point in 1940, Lieutenant John Wright was assigned to Corregidor, Philippine Islands. Captured there by the Japanese, he endured three and a half years of POW conditions described in subsequent war crimes trials as the worst of World War II. This book is built around a diary he smuggled through countless inspections during his imprisonment. A detailed account of the voyage of the "hellships" carrying prisoners from Manila to Japan; the disease, the hunger, and the different ways prisoners coped--or failed to cope--with their ordeal.
The late John Wright, Jr., lived in Riverside, California.
