In Enemy Hands: Personal Accounts of Those Taken Prisoner in World War II (Stackpole Classics) - Softcover

Swedberg, Claire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811737586 ISBN 13: 9780811737586

Publisher: Stackpole Books, 2018

Synopsis

In early 1942, following a string of successes, the Japanese seized nearly 10,000 American soldiers, among them Pvt. Oscar Smith, on Manila Bay and marched them to a near-certain death through Bataan. A few days later they put Smith to work burying the stacked bodies of his own men.

Robert Salmon had already served his time in the military during World War I, fighting for his native England. He was teaching biochemistry to Chinese students in Shanghai when the Japanese arrested him in 1943 and condemned him, with thousands of confused Western missionaries, to spend the remainder of World War II in an abandoned tobacco factory.

German soldiers, marching toward what would be known as the Battle of the Bulge, captured Ed Uzemack, a Chicago journalist turned soldier, at an abandoned Luxembourg inn. By cattle car they sent him to a crowded, wind-swept POW camp, once the final internment spot for Jewish concentration camp victims.

In 1945 Hermann Pfengle, just fifteen years old, had been released from German mil

About this title

About the Author

Claire Swedberg is a journalist who has worked in both newspapers and television. She is the author of Work Commando 311/I: American Paratroopers Become Forced Laborers for the Nazis, In Enemy Hands: Personal Accounts of Those Taken Prisoner in WWII, Three Years with the 92nd Illinois: The Civil War Diary of John M. King, and In the Valley of Mystic Light. She lives north of Seattle, Washington.

Edition details

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811737586
• ISBN 13: 9780811737586
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308