Beyond the March of Death

<p> The first to admit that he did not volunteer for military service Myrrl W. McBride Sr. was just a young man trying to work and return to college when he was drafted into a world completely foreign to him and a war he never envisioned. Soon he would suffer through one of the most tragic events in U.S. military history--the U.S. surrender at Bataan and the Bataan Death March.</p><p> This memoir written in 1948 while memories were fresh but never before published recounts the horrors of the march and its aftermath followed by three and a half years as a prisoner of war at Camp O'Donnell the Bilibid and Cabanatuan prisons onboard a prison hellship and in slave labor in Japan. The heartbreaking narrative reveals qualities that were undoubtedly critical to the author's survival--his courage ingenuity sense of humor and enduring hope.</p>