"This book contains 15 personal accounts of men who fought the Japanese and Nazis only to face the grim reality of daily life as POWs. The stories run the gamut from Wake Island, the Death Railway, the Bataan Death March, and survival in the jungles of Burma after escaping the Japanese, to the D-Day invasion, B-17 crew members shot down over Germany, and the Battle of the Bulge."--Page 7.
Stories and pictures from ex WWII POWs. (From Introduction) The stories in this book are real, they are compelling, and they give a true picture of POW life from soldiers who walked in those shoes as American prisoners of war in WWII.
