Torture in today’s mind thought has evolved into “if a prisoner experiences discomfort” is torture. More people need to read their history. A new book “Tears in the Darkness – The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath” tells the story of the cruel and heinous torture committed by the Japanese in WWII through the eyes of one of the survivors of the Bataan Death March.

For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America’s first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended with the surrender of 76,000 Filipinos and Americans, the single largest defeat in American military history.

The defeat, though, was only the beginning, as Michael and Elizabeth M. Norman make dramatically clear in this powerfully original book. From then until the Japanese surrendered in August 1945, the prisoners of war suffered an ordeal of unparalleled cruelty and savagery: forty-one months of captivity, starvation rations, dehydration, hard labor, deadly disease, and torture—far from the machinations of General Douglas MacArthur.

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