Tears In The Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Deathmarch and Its Aftermath Michael Norman Book
by Michael Norman

On April 9, 1942, four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, 76,000 American and Filipino soldiers, who were outnumbered, sick with disease, had few ammunition supplies and little food, surrendered to the Japanese while fighting on the Bataan Peninsula of the Philippine Islands.

These prisoners of war were forced to engage in a 66 mile death march to prisoner-of-war camps. They were brutally treated and given little food, water,and medical assistance. Those who could not keep up were beheaded or shot on the spot. Those who reached the prisoner-of-war camps faced horrendous conditions.

Eventually survivors of both the march and the prisoner-of-war camps were loaded onto "Hell Ships" and transferred to slave labor camps.

This book relates very personal experiences of these soldiers, which were compiled through hundreds of interviews.

If you are interested in History or specifically in a particularly vivid account of a small part of World War II, I recommend this book.