Recommended Reading



Recommended Reading

Note: Titles in blue refer to POW life in Fukuoka Camp 17 and/or are by Camp 17 POW's

• 42 months in Hell by John B. Howell

• Adapt or Die -a Former Japanese POW Tells All  by JD Merritt

• An Angel's Illustrated Journal by Floramund F. Difford

• Andy Andrews POW - 152 by Austin Andrews Jr. and Austin (Andy) Andrews Sr.

• Baby of the Bataan: Memoir of a 14 Year Old Soldier in World War II  by Joseph Q. Johnson

• Bataan: a Survivor's Memoir – the account of James H. “Hank” Cowan

• Bataan - In Pursuit of Truth  by Tillman Rutledge

• Bataan Diary & And Somebody Gives a Damn (Companion book to Bataan Diary)  by Paul Ashton

• Bataan Survivor: A POW’s Account of Japanese Captivity in World War II by David L. Hardee

• Bataan Uncensored by Col. E. B. Miller of the 194th Tank Battalion

• The Battle of Bataan: A History of the 90 Day Siege and Eventual Surrender of 75,000 Filipino and

   United States Troop to the Japanese in World War by Donald Young 

• Beyond Courage: One Regiment Against Japan  by Dorothy Page

• Brothers from Bataan: POW's, 1942-1945  by Adrian R. Martin

• Brother of Adversity: How the Bonds of Friendship Helped Two Men Survive the Horrors of Japanese Prison Camps and the Infamous Hell Ships During WWII, by Larry Dean Reece

• But Deliver Us From Evil, Father Duffy and the Men of Bataan  by Dan Murr

• Captured: The Forgotten Men of Guam by Roger Mansell

• Carlos, A Tale of Survival  by J. L. Kunkle

• Code Name: High Pockets,  True story of Claire Phillips, an American Mata Hari, and the WWII Resistance

Movement in the Philippines"  by Edna Binkowski

• Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945

by John A. Glusman  

• Corregidor: The American Alamo of World War II  by Eric Morris

• Corregidor: The End of the Line by Eric Morris

• Corregidor: From Paradise to Hell!  By Ben Walkdon

• Cub: Harrowing Stories of Army Life in China. Bataan & Korea  by Mike Gaffney  (nephew of POW Kevin Godskill)

• Dawn of Darkness  by Lee Brandenberg and Matt Isaacs

• The Death March  by Stanley L. Falk

• Death March: The Survivors of Bataan by Donald Knox

• Death on the Hellships  by Greg Michno

• Elwood – the story of Elwood Roholt by daughter Kristen Wagner

• Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War  by John D. Lukacs

• Fall of the Philippines  by Louis Morton

• Father Found  by Duane Heisinger

• A Final Salute, A:Subtitled WW II Letters From Immigrant Brothers by Jay Schofield

• First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War  

 by George Weller and Anthony Weller

This book has many FIRST HAND interviews with POW's from Camp 17 upon liberation. 

• Ghosts of Canopus  by Everett M. Perry, nephew of S1c Paul Edward Perry, Based on the ship's War Diary!

• Give Us This Day  by Sidney Stewart

• A Gordon Highlander if I Ever Saw One by William Ross Young

• Guerrilla Daughter  by Virginia Hansen Holmes

• Guests of the Emperor: the Secret History of Japan's Mukden POW Camp  by Linda Goetz Holmes Hell and Beyond:

A Diary of War and Captivity - Josiah Worthington ~ Compiled and Edited by Frances Worthington Lipe   

• Hour of Redemption: Heroic WW II Saga of America's Most Daring POW Rescue by Forrest Johnson

• Horyo  by Ret. Major Richard Gordon

• I Came Back From Bataan by James D. Gautier and R. L. Whitmore 

• I Served on Bataan  by Juanita Redmond, LT. , A.N.C. (1943)

• Keep The Men Alive: Australian POW doctors in Japanese captivity  by Rosalind Hearder   

• Knights of Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes   by Lord Russell of Liverpool

• Last Voyage of the Arisan Maru  by Dale Wilber - well researched, story of Pvt. Avery Wilber, Btry.  A, 60th CAC

• Late Summer of 1941 and My War With Japan by Weldon Hamilton  

• Letters Home  by Maxwell M. Andler, Jr. - Edited by Valeda Andler  

• Life as an American Prisoner of the Japanese by Charles Balaza 

• Live Dogs & Dead Dragons by  H.H. Hurst (free book to all veterans)

• The Long Hard Road  by Thomas Saylor 

• My Father's Captivity  by Al Young 

• My Hitch in Hell  by Lester Tenney (unfortunately this book is filled with inaccuracies & embellishments)

• My Japanese POW Diary  by Tillman Rutledge

• Never Forgotten – Story of the Japanese POW Camps in Taiwan During WWII by Michael D Hurst

• Never Give Up by Drolan Chandler as told to Myra McDonald Goode Jones

• Never Will We Forget: Oral Histories of WWII  by Marilyn Mayer Culpepper

(Frank Forsyth of Camp 17 is quoted often in this book)

• No Ordinary Life: the True Story of a Dutch Girl and an American Marine  by Paula Boswell (an account from the "wife's side")

• No time for Geishas  by Geoffrey Pharaoh Popham (British officer) 1970 copyright

• No Uncle Sam: The Forgotten of Bataan by Tony Bilek

• Of Rice and Men  by Chunn, Calvin Ellsworth  - Veteran's Publishing Company, 1946.

 (not to be confused with the Vietnam War book with the same title)

• Oh God, Where Are You?  by Abie Abraham

• Our Final Salute: WWII Letters From Immigrant Brothers  by Jay Schofiel

• Operation P.L.U.M. - The Ill-Fated 27th Bombardment Gr & the Fight for the Western Pacific  by Adrian R. Martin  

• Our Final Salute - WW II Letters From Immigrant Brothers Volume I  by Jay Schofield

• Pacific War P.O.W.: A Few Remaining Skeletons: A Bibliography of Personal Accounts of American WWII Prisoners of the Japanese. by Jim Cain

• Prisoners of the Japanese  by Gavan Daws (All inclusive - one of the best!)

• Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific

• Rising Sun Over Bataan: Memoirs of War  by Horacio Montoya 

• Rice, Men and Barbed Wire  by Arnold A. Bocksel

• Saga of a Fortress  by James and William Belote

• Sappers of the Silent Seventh  published by the Seventh Division Engineers Assoc., Sydney, 1982

• Rising From the Shadow of the Sun  by Herman de Jong, Ronny  

historical account of 4 years in the life of women & children under Japanese oppression on island of Java,

based author's mother’s diary 

• Silent Tears: Lest We Forget  by Stanley Tokarz

• Slaves of the Son of Heaven by R. H. Whitecross ~ Excellent, lots of names and incidents about Camp 17. Published in 1951.

• Soldier Slaves: Abandoned by the White House, Courts & Congress by J. Parkinson & Lee Benson

• Some Survived  by Manny Lawton

• Spirit of the Canopus: the war diary of a sailor and a lucky old lady  by Everett Marion Perry

• Surrender and Survival  by E. Bartlett Kerr

• Survivor: The incredible true story of American Patriot, Msgt. Frank N. Lovato, Bataan Death March Survivor and POW of the Japanese  by Francisco L. Lovato  

• Tell Me Another War Story; the Life of Evans Garcia by daughter, Margaret Garcia

• The Jersey Brothers; Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific; Family's Quest to Bring Him Home by Sally M Freeman

• Three came Home  by Agnes N. Keith - one of the best books on the subject of survival by a civilian POW internee.

• Thunder on Bataan: The First American Tank Battles of World War II by Donald L Caldwell

• Under the Samurai Sword  by C. M. Graham  

• Unjust Enrichment  by Linda G. Holmes  and  4,000 Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home 

both books by Linda G. Holmes

• We Band of Angels: the Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by Elizabeth M. Norman  

• We Refused to Die: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Bataan and Japan, 1942- 1945”

by Camp 17 POW Gene Jacobsen

• Weller's War: A Legendary Foreign Correspondent's Saga of WWII on Five Continents

• “…when men must die live”  by Kenneth B. Murphy and James T. Murphy

•  Zero Ward: A Survivor's Nightmare  by Murray Sneddon

***This list is far from an all-inclusive list. More suggestions are found here:

An excellent link for many more books on the POW experience and related matters:

For more books see this page: Books - POW/Interment Camps in Asia -Credit: Tom Moor

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