Unfinished Business with the Dead
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Donald E. and Vesta West Mansell. For three years Don Mansell"s world revolved between hunger, weevils, lack of privacy, and numbing routine as a prisoner of the Japanese army, in the Philippines. Through the eyes of a survivor, we see the intervention of Providence in an unforgettable true-life WWII adventure. Book Specs Binding: Paper Back Publisher: PPPA Printed: 2003 Pages: 255 Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1. "The Battle of Manila Is On!" 2. Sailing Into a Maelstrom 3. "Pearl Harbor Has Been Bombed!" 4. Flight to the Mountains 5. The Enemy Lands Twenty Miles Away 6. First Encounters With the Enemy 7. Prisoners of the Imperial Japanese Army 8. The Prisoners 9. Camp John Hay Concentration Camp 10. The First Months Under the Japanese 11. Released for One Day 12. Life Behind Barbed Wire 13. We Move to Camp Holmes 14. The First Escape 15. School Behind Barbed Wire 16. Halcyon Days 17. Two Months Under Virtual House Arrest 18. A Bootlegger Gets Beaten Up 19. A Meeting With the Guerillas 20. Two Men Escape From Camp 21. Tortured by the Kenpeitai 22. Plans to Escape 23. Fowl Play 24. The Last Months at Camp Holmes 25. Our Camp Moves to Manila 26. Old Bilibid Prison 27. Liberation!