Belly of the Beast: A POW's Inspiring True Story of Faith, Courage, and Survival Aboard the Infamous WWII Japanese Hell Ship Oryoku Maru (Digital Original)

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Synopsis
&“A searing tribute . . . [to] America in its bleakest hour&” (Sen. John McCain, New York Times–bestselling author of Faith of My Fathers). On December 13, 1944, POW Estel Myers was herded aboard the Japanese prison ship, the Oryoku Maru, with more than sixteen hundred other American captives. More than eleven hundred of them would be dead by journey&’s end . . . The son of a Kentucky sharecropper and an enlistee in the navy&’s medical corps, Myers arrived in Manila shortly before the bombings of Pearl Harbor and the other six targets of the Imperial Japanese military. While he and his fellow corpsmen tended to the bloody tide of soldiers pouring into their once peaceful naval hospital, the Japanese overwhelmed the Pacific islands, capturing seventy-eight thousand POWs by April 1942. Myers was one of the first captured. After a brutal three-year encampment, Myers and his fellow POWs were forced onto an enemy hell ship bound for Japan. Suffocation, malnutrition, disease, dehydration, infestation, madness, and complete despair claimed the lives of nearly three quarters of those who boarded &“the beast.&” Myers survived. A compelling account of a rarely recorded event in military history, this is more than Myers&’s true story—this is an homage to the unfailing courage of men at war, an inspiring chronicle of self-sacrifice and endurance, and a tribute to the power of faith, the strength of the soul, and the triumph of the human spirit. &“An inspiring look at one of World War II&’s darkest hours.&” —James Bradley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers and Flyboys &“A searing chronicle.&” —Kirkus Reviews
Copyright:
2001

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
288 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781626812918
Publisher:
Diversion Books
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Copyrighted By:
Judith L. Pearson
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Military, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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