A Study in Valor: The Faith of a Bataan Death March Survivor

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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781600651052

Автор

Издатель Mapletree Publishing Company

Страниц 184

Год выпуска 2010

"Clarence Bramley is a remarkable man," writes author William T. Garner. "He has seen and been a victim of some of the most heinous behavior witnessed in modern times. Yet, his objectivity and his faith have not diminished. Indeed, the opposite is true." Many books have been written about the Bataan Death March, but few have described the deep faith of the heroic men who experienced the horrors of that march. Among the survivors was Clarence Bramley. Tall and lean, he enlisted during World War II with dreams of flying P-40 fighter planes in the U.S. Army Air Corps. But the reality of war often dashes young men"s dreams. While waiting for the results of his pilot exams, his squadron was ordered to the Philippines where he serviced the very planes he was hoping to fly. Then in the spring of 1942, the islands fell to the Japanese. During the years that followed, Bramley experienced the brutal Death March, incarceration in the Phillipines and Taiwan, nightmarish weeks on a Japanese...