IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH
a novel by WALTER B LITTLEJOHN
"Hayaku, Hayaku, Hayaku." Those were the
words shouted by the Japanese guards as they
jabbed at their prisoners with bayonets. Few
knew the guards were shouting at them to "hurry"
and would be hit, kicked and sometimes shot to
death when when they didn't comply.
That was The Bataan Death March.
In The Shadow of Death tells the story of two men
caught up in the worst atrocity ever committed
against American prisoners of war and what war
will do to men.
- An American GI who becomes a POW with
the fall of Bataan. The other a Japanese
officer who spares the life of the young
American.
- Two men who, in normal times, would
never have known the other existed are
brought together by the vagaries of war.
Two men whose lives are altered in the most profound way.
- A story of war and what it does to the men who fight them. A story of cruelity and kindness.
- A story of compassion and revenge.
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