YANKS DON'T CRY
A Marine's-Eye View of Four Heroic Years in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp
Martin Boyle
VG/VG. Minor chips & tears to jacket, which is in mylar. (NY: Bernard Geis Associates, 1963). First Printing. 249 pages.
"The palm-fringed island of Guam is the exotic setting. the date is early December, 1941. America was invincible, and the Marines who were lolling about on this Pacific paradise proved it to the lovely native girls at every opportunity.
...Then the unbelievable events of Pearl Harbor shattered the dream. ~~ But the Yanks who were shipped off to prison in Japan carried with them a still unshakable belief in American invincibility. IT took nearly four terrible years for them to be proven correct. During those years they managed to retain the high spirits of free men, to sabotage the Japanese war effort at every opportunity as they worked on the docks and in other areas, to steal extra food rations (with the surprising connivance of Japanese civilians),
and to lean back in their prison bunks and enjoy -- in spite of all the danger to themselves -- the magnificent pyrotechnical effects of the devastating American fire raids on Japan. ~~~ The story of the conflict between captives and captors, culminating in a wild triumphal scene on V-J Day, reads like a novel. But instead, it is sheer gutsy reality...."
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