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 enlarge | Author: Lester I. Tenney
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 654495
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 220
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 1574882988
Dewey Decimal Number: 940
EAN: 9781574882988
ASIN: 1574882988
Publication Date: September 1, 2000
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 Unbelievable and Infuriating September 13, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The story of the Bataan survivors is at the same time unbelievable and infuriating. It blows my mind the cruelty these heros were subjected to on an hourly basis and at the same time I'm ashamed to say that part of me feels like Japan got off easy with two nukes dropped on them. That anybody lived at all is in itself no small feat.
The book itself is a great read. It was obviously written by a survivor, so consequently it has that 1st person feel that I like.
Great personal account of the horrors of a POW in WWII January 30, 2006
I really enjoyed this book. It was a very quick read and one that I could not put down. The book has the Bataan Death March in the title but there is so much more in this book. After the march he goes into his time in the POW camps in the Filapeens, his escape, his recapture, his boat trip to Japan and his work in the Japanese coal mines. He then talks in detail about his trip home after the war and what life was like after he got home. Just writing this review brings back memories of how much I enjoyed this book.
I have to admit that the things that the sadistic Japanese soldiers did is not for those with a weak stomach.
I recommend this book to anyone that wants to read history from a personal account. The only thing I wish would have been different in the book is I would have liked for God to get more credit for the unexplained instances that spared his life on several occasions.
Still 5 stars.
Lester Tenney is an amazing man January 28, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have known Les Tenney for many, many years. I was previledged to read this book before it was published. Les is a man of courage, insight, grace, forgiveness and amazingly positive about life given what he endured. My best recommendation for this book is that I cried during the reading. I had many kin folk that fought in the Pacific theatre during WWII and I have not the slightest doubt that every word of Les' book is true. To read the book is to know the man and that is a very fine thing indeed.
The Horrors of WWII suffered by American POw's December 16, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
As the son of former POW I understand more fully what hell and torture my father experienced after reading "My Hitch In Hell" As a young boy, I was often awakened as my father screamed for help, still imprisoned in his nightmares. Although spared the indignity of the Bataan Death March, my father was captured on the island of Corregidor, shipped to Japan and incarcerated for 3 1/2 years at a camp in Fukuoka. Lester Tenney's description of his experience reminds the reader in graphic detail that war is hell, and makes me more thankful for my freedom at the cost of so many!
Worth the read. September 4, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is a tough read because of the graphic nature of the brutality the POWs and filipinos suffered. Still I wrote this review to reinforce the many other positive reviews here. Lester Tenney tells a very personal story that includes in the telling his own journey of understanding of the cruel treatment he suffered. I would recommend this book for any adult, who can take the detailed descriptions of prisoner abuse.
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