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Fugitives : evading and escaping the Japanese by Bob Stahl; NetLibrary, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Fugitives : evading and escaping the Japanese about?
When the Japanese Imperial Forces invaded the Philippine Islands at the onset of World War II, they quickly rounded up Allied citizens on Luzon and imprisoned them as enemy aliens. These captured civilians were treated inhumanely from the start, and news of the atrocities committed by the enemy soon spread to the more remote islands to the south. Hearing this, many of the expatriates living there refused to surrender as their islands were occupied. Fugitives: Evading and Escaping the Japanese, based on the memoir of Jordan A. Hamner, tells the true story of a young civilian mining engineer trapped on the islands during the Japanese invasion. Instead of surrendering, he and two American co-workers volunteered their services to the Allied armed forces engaged in the futile effort to stave off the enemy onslaught. When the overwhelmed defenders surrendered to the invaders, the three men fled farther into the disease-ridden mountainous jungle. After nearly a year of nomadic wandering, they found a derelict, twenty-one foot long lifeboat in a secluded coastal bay. Hoping to sail to freedom in Australia, the trio converted the craft into a sailboat, and called it the “Or Else.” They w
Who reads Fugitives : evading and escaping the Japanese?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bob Stahl; NetLibrary, Inc
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813122243
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Literary Fiction
