The Reckoning- John Grisham

[lovethempokes]

Anyone read this one yet. I found it to be one of his better ones. The story centers around a lieutenant that endured the Bataan Death March and POW camps. Very interesting reading. I like anything that makes me want to go find out more about it. Since the Bataan is not covered as much as other parts of WWII, I really did not know about it. That anyone survived that is truly a miracle.

 

[Cowguy]

Anyone read this one yet. I found it to be one of his better ones. The story centers around a lieutenant that endured the Bataan Death March and POW camps. Very interesting reading. I like anything that makes me want to go find out more about it. Since the Bataan is not covered as much as other parts of WWII, I really did not know about it. That anyone survived that is truly a miracle.

Will read.

Good books on Bataan - Tears in the darkness and some survived.

 

[NeekReevers]

Anyone read this one yet. I found it to be one of his better ones. The story centers around a lieutenant that endured the Bataan Death March and POW camps. Very interesting reading. I like anything that makes me want to go find out more about it. Since the Bataan is not covered as much as other parts of WWII, I really did not know about it. That anyone survived that is truly a miracle.

I thought it was just OK. It was one of those books that I would have dropped if I wasn't already close to the end. The plot was pretty predictable. The Bataan stuff was pretty good but I had read several books on Bataan before so that part didn't add much for me.

 

[Renegade Bullet]

I thought it was kind of random. They tell this kind of interesting story and then almost towards the end they stick this really deep story of the Bataan Peninsula. Just seemed a little out of place

 

[AC_Exotic]

I knew a fellow that survived the Bataan death march. He had quite a story.

He met his wife when they brought him back stateside to a military hospital, he was skin and bones and they weren't sure he would survive.

He met his wife who was a nurse there and made her promise that she would go on a date with him when he got out. She was moved from California to the east coast before he recovered.

He looked her up when released and reintroduced himself and she didn't recognize him because he had gained all his weight back. They went out and fell in love. They were still married 60 years later.

He had another cool story about the reunion he and other survivors had back in the Philippines. The government there honored them with a huge banquet and treated them like the heroes that they were. The pics of the event were really cool.