The Medic by Claire E. Swedberg
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Description The story of one of the longest-term prisoners of war in WWII, taken prisoner in the American surrender at Bataan in April 1942.
Publisher Description
Henry Chamberlain was one of the longest-term prisoners of war in World War II. Taken prisoner in the American surrender at Bataan in April 1942, he remained in Japanese captivity until September 1945. During three and a half years of imprisonment, as a medic he was a unique and unfortunate witness to the horrors and terrors the Japanese inflicted on their prisoners during the Bataan Death March and at the notorious Cabanatuan prison camp, where for two years he tended to the sick and wounded, all too often without medicine. In October 1944 the Japanese put Chamberlain on a "hell ship" to forced labor in sugar cane fields in Formosa (now Taiwan) and again, in January 1945, to a Mitsubishi lead and copper mine in Japan. U.S. military forces reached the camp in September 1945, liberating Chamberlain and his fellow soldiers. Chamberlain's is a story of excruciating hardship, abiding endurance, and transcendent courage, and writer Claire Swedberg tells it beautifully, with great style and deep pathos, from Chamberlain's fraught Depression-era boyhood in Nebraska, through his World War II captivity, to his return to Japan in 2018. Like Adam Makos's Spearhead and Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken, this is the account of one man fighting for and with his fellow soldiers against the forces of war in the twentieth-century.
Author Biography
Claire Swedberg is a journalist who has worked in both newspapers and television. She is the author of Work Commando 311/I: American Paratroopers Become Forced Laborers for the Nazis, In Enemy Hands: Personal Accounts of Those Taken Prisoner in WWII, and Three Years with the 92nd Illinois: The Civil War Diary of John M. King. She lives north of Seattle, Washington.
Details ISBN 0811739953 ISBN-13 9780811739955 Title The Medic Author Claire E. Swedberg Format Hardcover Year 2021 Pages 272 Publisher Stackpole Books GE_Item_ID:137145291; About Us
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