Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and its Aftermath

By Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman

This is the story of the beginning of the Pacific front of WWII in the Philippines and  ultimately the story of the Bataan march highlighted through the drawings and personal story of Ben Steele. Drawing from many interviews and stories woven together well to tell this gruesome tale. Interestingly, thought it also tells the story of Ben and his experience and survival it also details that of Homma a Japanese General who is tried in a war crimes trial after the war. This is an excellent, insightful, heart breaking story of death and survival in the chaotic beginning of a war which resulted in the torture, starvation and suffering of tens of thousands of US and Filipino troops.

Book 25

Two books to follow up on by Elizabeth Norman:
"The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam"
"We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese"