Jimmy Propfield joined the army for two reasons: to get out of Mobile, Alabama, with his best friends Hank and Billy and to forget his high school sweetheart, Claire.
Life in the Philippines seems like paradise--until the morning of December 8, 1941, when news comes from Manila: Imperial Japan has bombed Pearl Harbor. Within hours, the teenage friends are plunged into war as enemy warplanes attack Luzon, beginning a battle for control of the Pacific theater that will culminate with a last stand on the Bataan Peninsula and end with the largest surrender of American troops in history.
What follows will become known as one of the worst atrocities in modern warfare: the Bataan Death March. With no hope of rescue, the three friends vow to make it back home together. But the ordeal is only the beginning of their nearly four-year fight to survive.
This is not my normal type of book that I read. However, if you get the chance please read this book. I wasn't totally convinced I was going to enjoy this book, but it got to the stage I had to turn the page, as I needed to know what happened next.
I did not know anything about this part of the war, and what those three friends did to try and survive was unbelievable, although their story is fiction, it is based on actual facts. Also the bond that they formed prior to the war, helped them survive the awful things that they had to go through.
I enjoyed the story of Billy and Claire, and the story went back and forward to when they were growing up, then to the three boys, (and they were just boys) fighting together in the war.
Stars out of 5 : 5 A must read for everyone, even if you are not fond of war stories. What these guys went through was just terrible, and everyone should know about it. Please read this book.
"Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.
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