BOOK REVIEWS

than

thousand miles of ocean, only

fundamental question: To what extent

are an

individualt actions, hffivei

rr.tffir

struggles ot nafonsf Nor rs there an ef-

fort to deal with what might be termed

midlevel questions, such as how much
of the attendant sadistic treatment in
|apanese POW camps was the policy
of the state. Or was it just aberrant

behavior on

ih-paffiF@paths?

tilAr

rm-difiEculties in

ladlustingtffi
-racrusilng
'States

lfie
itb ln
in iEerl=-itd
the Unlte(l
is described but with very little
context, and even ]Esslttemot to use
his story to deepen one's understandins
tO postwzrr

is a lot to say about how and what we

remember and how and what we forget.

ldl

Ae's b'!

tl_

ui9
o
wiffr
H;6;ri *ced;;; ic

.E -"ab
t:

ofwhat

e expectation s,

-day veterans are experi-

6Zamp*A$should have been

)ente*#r"a.
..----\-

challenge of survival and returned

homecoming experience was

home to headlines, and although he

cal of those of POWs dealing with a

continued to be in the public eye,

time after time, a readert reaction to
this book is, "Who was this guy!"
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world in which post-traumatic stress

spdrolqg\Mas not eyen recognized,
much less qndersrood. or whether this

tot::1''i',n"
n household
namBfffirnany
"

\ ras an

others

who deserve the honor of memory have

been lost in time? The author refers to

UG'r

rth.rr *iro aro ftr*

rcil
pe$a$ gr_ mojl-Elg1rant of whom

unusual case for the time.

fi*8""i;a"rits to tiking @
@)and it is easyto see why
8 krffiffi. Although her feeling does
not affect the bookt balance, it may
in why sections detailing

were nine Marines left behind dur-

experiences

(wtich

ing the 1942 Makin raid. Theywere

cF;yeJl6tT;Epa#se,

taken to
sometime
later
executed.
@ul$,and
Although not apparently serendipitous,

abulg) have a somewhat rushed feeling.It is as though 14iiiil6hfryoves

through tris famnel>fiisEfifi-e can

one of the book's major contributions

is the inclusion of those nine names.

rebirth

because the book is so

w Perhaps
individualt, i. 6iTEriBIEi-4
v vides
little
contextEiffients
ce n

p ro

thai

sweep p-ampeltrri;along his path. She

pr6lidern@s"Iffi

i;rdissues.

To some degree this illuminates the

to showcas e @m pCiirr-i\yeli g io us
ar a BhrGif,-am meeting.

fu;

Readerswho seethebookfor

ls-a

whatit

Dersonal narrauve Of an ex-

trrordirury

time-will

** i,

",

not be disappointed.

RICHARD NORTON

NavalWar Callege

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