Under the Shadow of the Rising Sun / Mansell, Donald Ernest; Vesta West / (PB/2003-2003/B+/USED)

*Condition Note: Book is in like new condition.*

Donald E. and Vesta West Mansell. For three years Don Mansell's world revolved between hunger, weevils, lack of privacy, and numbing routine as a prisoner of the Japanese army, in the Philippines. Through the eyes of a survivor, we see the intervention of Providence in an unforgettable true-life WWII adventure.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1. "The Battle of Manila Is On!"
2. Sailing Into a Maelstrom
3. "Pearl Harbor Has Been Bombed!"
4. Flight to the Mountains
5. The Enemy Lands Twenty Miles Away
6. First Encounters With the Enemy
7. Prisoners of the Imperial Japanese Army
8. The Prisoners
9. Camp John Hay Concentration Camp
10. The First Months Under the Japanese
11. Released for One Day
12. Life Behind Barbed Wire
13. We Move to Camp Holmes
14. The First Escape
15. School Behind Barbed Wire
16. Halcyon Days
17. Two Months Under Virtual House Arrest
18. A Bootlegger Gets Beaten Up
19. A Meeting With the Guerillas
20. Two Men Escape From Camp
21. Tortured by the Kenpeitai
22. Plans to Escape
23. Fowl Play
24. The Last Months at Camp Holmes
25. Our Camp Moves to Manila
26. Old Bilibid Prison
27. Liberation!

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