Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945...

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John A. Glusman

Conduct Under Fire

Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945

John A. Glusman

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Penguin USA
25 April 2006

Biography: science, technology & engineering; Second World War; Medical profession

The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese.

In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father, Murray, and three fellow navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May 1942. Here are the dramatic stories of the fall of Bataan, the siege of ""the Rock,"" and the daily struggles to tend the sick, wounded, and dying during some of the heaviest bombardments of World War II. Here also is the desperate war doctors and corpsmen waged against disease and starvation amid an enemy that viewed surrender as a disgrace. To survive, the POWs functioned as a family. But the ties that bind couldn't protect them from a ruthless counteroffensive waged by American submarines or from the B-29 raids that burned Japan's major cities to the ground. Based on extensive interviews with American, British, Australian, and Japanese veterans, as well as diaries, letters, and war crimes testimony, this is a harrowing account of a brutal clash of cultures, of a race war that escalated into total war.

Like Flags of Our Fathers and Ghost Soldiers, Conduct Under Fire is a story of bravery on the battlefield and ingenuity behind barbed wire, one that reveals the long shadow the war cast on the lives of those who fought it.

By: John A. Glusman
Imprint: Penguin USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 213mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 573g
ISBN: 9780142002223
ISBN 10: 0142002224
Pages: 624
Publication Date: 25 April 2006
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Prologue 1 The Prettiest Girl in the World 5 The Pearl of the Orient 25 Red Sunset 50 Invisible Enemies 62 Exodus 72 Rendezvous 85 Opening Salvos 94 Never Surrender 117 ""Help is on the Way"" 123 ""Wherever I Am, I Still Love You"" 143 ""We Are Not Barbarians"" 154 ""I Go to Meet the Japanese Commander"" 165 Limbo 198 Horyo 214 ""The Last Thin Tie"" 230 The Good Doctor 253 ""The Japanese Will Pay"" 282 Bridge Over Hell 295 Bad Timing and Good Luck 318 ""Action Taken: None"" 340 The Arisan Maru 354 Fire from the Sky 368 Total War 381 Darkness Before Dawn 407 Mission of Mercy 431 Coming Home 477 Epilogue 483 Acknowledgements 483 Notes 487 Selected Bibliography Index "

John A. Glusman is editor in chief of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He has been a contributing editor to the Paris Review and has written for numerous publications, including The Economist, The Washington Post Book World, The Christian Science Monitor, and Rolling Stone.

Reviews for Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945

Page-turning. --Wall Street Journal A thoughtful, humane meditation on war and family history, full of myth-bursting truths. --Kirkus Reviews Glusman has written a compelling account of courage and sacrifice from the perspective of the doctors who sought to keep their fellow captives alive under conditions that amounted to a mass sentence of death. Over a third of American POWs held by the Japanese died in captivity. With grace and clarity, Glusman gives a keen sense of loss to that statistic, and a heroic dignity to those who survived--a major achievement indeed. --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) Original, moving, and astonishing. --Kenzaburo Oe, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Epic... A marvelously humane and beautifully rendered tribute. --San Francisco Chronicle