Little bird walking -- Last days of boyhood -- Where sea and sky meet -- Lost babes in the woods -- The girl named Perpetua -- She'll make you a star -- Horizon of hurt -- Digging the ashes -- Ache from the Hacienda -- Final days of Bataan -- So utterly alone -- Prerogative of madness -- The Bilibid Prison respite -- Three ships from Hell -- Under the cold ground -- Emancipation -- A time to heal.
Summary:
"Joe Johnson Jr. ran away from home at the age of 12, hopping a freight train at the height of the Great Depression. Two years later, he managed to talk his way into the U.S. Army. Seeking freedom and adventure, he was sent to the Philippines. After a misstep with a teenage prostitute, he vowed to right the wrongs he'd done and help the girl have a better life. Yet when the Japanese attacked on December 7, 1941, his hopes of being with the girl had to wait. Joe and his fellow soldiers fought for four brutal months in Bataan and Corregidor, until they were forced to surrender. Joe endured years of horror as a prisoner of war, only dreaming about seeing again the girl he'd come to love"-- Provided by publisher.
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