captured on corregidor diary of an american p.o.w. in world war ii
on graduating from west point in 1940 lieutenant john wright was assigned to corregidor philippine islands . captured there by the japanese he endured three and a half years of pow conditions described in subsequent war crimes trials as the worst of world war ii . this book is built around a diary he smuggled through countless inspections during his imprisonment . a detailed account of the voyage of the hellships carrying prisoners from manila to japan ; the disease the hunger and the different ways prisoners coped or failed to cope with their ordeal .