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Author's Synopsis
A Commemorative Special Edition for America-250, Honoring a US Army officer with a military career that bridges five decades -- a titanic story of survival from a compassionate leader who had unsurpassed integrity.
When COL Arthur Lee Shreve, Jr. (U.S. Army pilot, WWI) becomes a POW of the Japanese, his life turns into an unforgettable tale of grit, American ingenuity, and raw bravery. After the fall of the Philippines, he survives the Bataan Death March, cares for his men, and leverages a secret intelligence operation for humanitarian purposes. Working with the Filipino Resistance, he smuggles in his own checkbook to buy food for his men—unthinkable acts of courage under the direst circumstances, risking execution, saving lives, and forging a legacy of leadership and purpose that defines a true hero: The Colonel’s Way.
These are his diaries, unabridged, transcribed by the War Department and his brother, COL L. G. Shreve from the originals written in Filipino composition schoolbooks and hidden from the Japanese while a POW. Not only an unmatched account of the Fall of Bataan and the teamwork that followed among his brothers, but submittable evidence in the 1946-48 International War Crimes Trials.
Format(s) for review: Paper Only
Review genre: Nonfiction—Memoir/Biography
Pages/Word count: 308 / 60,000