| Book Name: | As Good As Dead by Stephen L. Moore |
| Author: | Stephen L. Moore |
| Category: | A Special Books |
| Language: | English |
| Format: | ePUB |
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Free Download As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp Epub Book
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The heroic story of eleven American POWs who defied certain death in World War II—As Good as Dead is an unforgettable account of the Palawan Massacre survivors and their daring escape.
In late 1944, the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and the end of the Pacific War was soon within reach. But there would be no salvation for the last 150 American prisoners of war still held on the island of Palawan. After years of slave labor, starvation, disease, and torture, their worst fears were about to be realized. On December 14, with machine guns trained on them, they were herded underground into shallow air raid shelters—death pits dug with their own hands.
Japanese soldiers doused the shelters with gasoline and set them on fire. Some thirty prisoners managed to bolt from the fiery carnage, running a lethal gauntlet of machine gun fire and bayonets to jump from the cliffs to the rocky Palawan coast. By the next morning, only eleven men were…
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Author(s): Stephen L Moore
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, Year: 2016
ISBN: 9780399583551
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