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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
japan. 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 nov Bataan, the siege of “the Rock,” and the daily struggles to tend the sick, wounded, and dying during a few of the heaviest bombardments of World War II. Here 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. However 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 intensive interviews with American, British, Australian, and Japanese veterans, as well as diaries, letters, and war crimes testimony, this is a harrowing account of your brutal clash of cultures, of your race war that escalated into total war. Like Flags of your Fathers and Ghost Soldiers, Conduct Under Fire is a tale of bravery on the battlefield and ingenuity behind barbed wire, one that reveals the long shadow the war cast on the lives of these who fought it.
japan. 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 nov Bataan, the siege of “the Rock,” and the daily struggles to tend the sick, wounded, and dying during a few of the heaviest bombardments of World War II. Here 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. However 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 intensive interviews with American, British, Australian, and Japanese veterans, as well as diaries, letters, and war crimes testimony, this is a harrowing account of your brutal clash of cultures, of your race war that escalated into total war. Like Flags of your Fathers and Ghost Soldiers, Conduct Under Fire is a tale of bravery on the battlefield and ingenuity behind barbed wire, one that reveals the long shadow the war cast on the lives of these who fought it.
