by Darlene Deibler Rose (1990)
The true story of one woman's triumph of faith. Newlywed American missionary Darlene Deibler Rose survived four years in a notorious Japanese prison camp set deep in the jungles of New Guinea. Thinking she was never to see her husband again, Darlene Rose was forced to sign a false confession and face the executioner's sword, only to be miraculously spared. - Back cover.
Myrrl W. McBride, Sr
"The story begins with the news of Pearl Harbor just reaching the Philippine Islands, continuing through the courageous stand of the 200th Coast Guard Artillery in the Battle of Bataan, the Death March, and Myrrl W. McBride, Sr.'s, three and half years as a prisoner of war in Japanese camps"--Provided by publisher.
Lucie Bertrand
"Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement", écrivait Boileau dans son Art poétique. Comment cependant "concevoir bien" une situation si monstrueusement hors du commun que l'enfer des camps de concentration ? Au problème pour le moins épineux de la création de l'écrit concentrationnaire s'ajoute celui de la réception. La plupart de ceux qui ont connu les camps sont morts : c'est à un public essentiellement constitué de néophytes que le rescapé s'adresse. "Ce qui est inconcevable peut s'exprimer clairement", c'est ce que nous apprend L'espèce humaine. Encore faut-il, pour le comprendre, concevoir que "clairement" renvoie moins à une clarté textuelle qu'à une écriture éclairante.
William (Bill) Richardson with Kevin Maurer
From the devastating counterattack at Unsan to the thirty-four months he spent in captivity-a period of years in which giving up surely meant dying-Col. Bill Richardson's instinct for leadership and stubborn will to survive saw him through one valley of death after the next. Valleys of Death is a stirring story of survival and determination that offers a fascinating, intimate look at the soldiers who fought America's first battle of the Cold War in the unvarnished words of one of their own.
Susan Gold
The Eyes are the Same, a memoir of the Holocaust, describes a child's consciousness with great fidelity and a poet's eye. Drawn into a vortex of deception, denial, and lies, her privileged childhood is torn apart -- replaced by two harrowing years spent in a hole in the ground beneath a stable, and a long subsequent recovery.