Captive of the Rising Sun: The Pow Memoirs of Rear Admiral Donald T. Giles, Usn

By Admiral Donald T. Giles USN

Book Overview

One of the most cogent accounts of the fall of Guam and the ensuing four years of brutality in Japanese prison camps ever published. Includes thorough research of military and national policy as well... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557503206
• ISBN13: 9781557503206
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"

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About This Book...

From the dustjacket... Commander Donald Giles, Sr., the Vice Governor of Guam, faced a Japanese invasion of the island shortly after Pearl Harbor. He and his comrades became some of the first American POWs in WWII. "Captive is based on a memoir written by Giles and discovered after his death by his son, Donald T. Giles, Jr." "...one of the most cogent accounts every published on the fall of Guam and en ensuing four years of brutality." It details atrocities, survival, the fates of of all personnel who died or were captured on Guam, and "inspires the reader on both a military and a human level." The book also documents Giles' readjustment to America after the war.