TY - BOOK AU - Swedberg, Claire TI - In enemy hands : : personal accounts of those taken prisoner in world war II / SN - 811709000 (hardbound) AV - D 805 .A2 S85 1997 PY - 1997/// CY - Mechanicsburg, PA : PB - Stackpole Boooks KW - Prisoners of war KW - Biography KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Personal narratives KW - Prisoners and prisons N1 - Includes the story of Pvt. Oscar Smith, one of 10,000 American soldiers seized by the Japanese in Manila Bay and marched to a near-certain death through Bataan. A few days later they put Smith to work burying the stacked bodies of his own men. - Roderick Hall N2 - Anthology of first person accounts by American ex-prisoners of war. Only one deals with the Philippines: the story of Pvt. Oscar Smith, who fought in Bataan and was captured. He narrates life in Bataan, the Death March and the horrors he saw as a POW of the Japanese. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose ER -