Captured on Corregidor

<p> 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.</p>