The authors follow Steele through his captivity in the Philippines, shipment to Japan on one of the hell ships, and his eventual liberation at the end of the war. Steele survived the death march, making it alive to Camp O'Donnell. They endured the brutality of the Japanese guards and those lucky enough to survive witnessed the murder of massive numbers of their comrades who lacked the strength to continue. Forced by their captors to undertake a horrific 66-mile march (the Bataan Death March) to the rail station at San Fernando, Steele and his comrades suffered from a near total lack of food, water, and medical care. They follow Steele as the US and Filipino forces retreat to Bataan and desperately resist the Japanese onslaught until hunger, disease, and lack or supplies finally forced the surrender of the 76,000 defenders. Available in used condition with free US shipping on. In Tears in the Darkness Michael and Elizabeth Norman tell the story of the Bataan Death March through the eyes of Ben Steele, a twenty-two-year-old Montana cowboy who enlisted in the Army in 1940 and found himself in the Philippines when the Japanese invaded in 1941. Buy Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath By Michael Norman. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2009 Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermathīy Michael Norman and Elizabeth M.
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