TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flanders,Sherrod M.
TI  - Undefeated Americans: a personal story of the "Battling bastards of Battaan [i.e. Bataan]" 
SN  - 1410739015 (softbound)
AV  - D 767.4  F53 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - [Bloomington, Ind.]
PB  - 1stBooks
KW  - Flanders, Sherrod M.
KW  - Bataan, Battle of, Philippines, 1942
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Bataan (Province)
KW  - Military campaigns
N1  - Battle of Bataan and the Death March -- First draft for Japan -- Transfer to Cabanatuan -- Cabanatuan -- Life at Cabanatuan -- Wood detail -- The sick ward -- Cabanatuan detail -- Memorial day -- The escape and firing squad -- Webfoot -- Colonel Doolittle's Raid -- Selected for Japan -- Boat trip to Japan -- Japan : new experiences -- Making new acquaintances -- A speech by the Japanese commander -- Working on the docks -- Our good friend, Pop -- Pop and the tobacco -- On the docks -- Hot bath -- Red cross boxes for Christmas -- Goodbye to Pop -- Work environment -- A new Japanese commander -- Spring and summer -- Hazards of stealing -- We form a band -- Shakespeare is alive and well -- Close call -- Roosevelt's death and Holey Joe -- An easier winter -- Ernie defies cyclone Pete -- First American planes -- Waiting for the air raid -- A Saki celebration -- Another new camp commander -- Everyone is hungry -- First air raid -- Surprise attack -- Beginning of the end -- End of the war -- Rescue! -- Going home
N2  - "Each person during a lifetime encounters some adverse experience, and each react in a different way. Some people ignore what happens, hoping that it will go away. Others hide difficulty inside but dwell on it until it eats them alive. Then, there are those who prefer to talk about hardships or write about them so that those going through similar experiences can take hope or help from what others have suffered. Such is the case with Undefeated Americans by Sherrod M. Flanders. His three-and-a-half years as a Japanese prisoner-of-war during World War II horrified the new high-school graduate as well as the reader who shares his experience second hand. This fast-paced memoir takes the reader from Flanders' brief tenure in the Philippines through the Bataan Death March into the Japanese camp where these boys deal with sand fleas and Shakespeare, snow and mud, rice and more rice, and hunger and death. You will both laugh and cry as you watch these children become men, and you will rejoice when they are finally rescued at the end of the war. Although Pvt. Flanders is dead, his story is very much alive and relevant for a nation again under siege."
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