Very good condition. Light wear on the cover and spine. Clean pages. 'For the first four months of 1942, American, Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought America's first major land battle of World War 1: the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended with the single largest defeat in American military history. This was only beginning. Until the Japanese surrendered in August 1945, the prisoners of war suffered forty-one months of unparalleled cruelty and savagery. Michael and Elizabeth Norman bring to the story remarkable feats of reportage and literary empathy. Their protagonist, Ben Steele, is a young cowboy and aspiring sketch artist from Montana who joins the army to see the world and ended up on a death march. Juxtaposed against Steele's story are the heretofore untold accounts of Japanese soldiers who struggled to maintain their humanity while carrying out their superiors' inhuman commands. Tears in thel Darkness is an altogether new look at World War ll that exposes the myths of war and shows the extent of suffering and loss on both sides.'