Spradlin, Michael P.,

Prisoner of war / Michael P. Spradlin. - First edition. - 263 pages ; 20 cm.

Fifteen-year-old Henry Forrest lies about his age and enlists in the Marines to escape from his abusive father, but when he is immediately sent to the Philippines he finds himself in the middle of the Japanese invasion--and as he grows up he will have to endure the Bataan Death March, overcrowded prisons, and the Japanese factory in Tokyo where he is eventually sent as slave labor.

ISBN: 9781338181197

LCCN: 2016040575

Subjects--Topical Terms:
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese--Fiction.
Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942--Fiction.
Forced labor--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Tokyo (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1944-1945--Fiction.
Philippines--History--Japanese occupation, 1942-1945--Fiction.
Tokyo (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1944-1945--Fiction.
Japan--History--1926-1945--Fiction.