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The Butchers, the Baker

其他書名	The World War II Memoir of a United States Army Air Corps Soldier Captured by the Japanese in the Philippines
出版	McFarland & Company, 2000
主題	Biography & Autobiography / MilitaryBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsHistory / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / GeneralHistory / Military / United StatesHistory / Military / Veterans
ISBN	07864063649780786406364
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=yf5mAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Twelve hours after Pearl Harbor, Clark Field in the Philippines was attacked by Japanese aircraft. Among the survivors was Private Victor L. Mapes, who spent the next three years fleeing from and then being imprisoned by the Japanese military machine. When the tide of battle in the Pacific turned against the Japanese, Mapes experienced more harrowing conditions than before. After his unmarked prison ship was torpedoed by an American submarine, the wounded author struggled in the water against the elements and the enemy, as the Japanese tried to kill the escaping POWs. Mapes' memoir chronicles a gruelling three-year ordeal that was punctuated by strange and often amusing encounters with fellow Americans, Japanese, Filipinos, and the fierce Moros of Mindanao Island. The memoir includes photographs and maps, as well as a bibliography and index.