{"product_id":"we-refused-to-die-my-time-as-a-prisoner-of-war-in-bataan-and-japan-1942-1945-9781607811251","title":"We Refused to Die: My time as a prisoner of war","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGene Jacobsen was a nineteen-year-old Idaho ranch kid when he decided to join the Army Air Corps in September 1940. By December 1941 he was supply sergeant for the Twentieth Pursuit Squadron at Clark Field in the Philippines. Five months later he was a captive of the Imperial Japanese Army, enduring the Bataan death march and subsequent horrors in the Philippines and Japan. Of the 207 officers and men who made up Jacobsen’s squadron at the beginning of the war, sixty-five survived to return to the United States. \u003ci\u003eWe Refused to Die \u003c\/i\u003erecounts Jacobsen’s struggle, against all odds, to remain one of those sixty-five men.\u003cbr\u003eIn engaging, direct prose, Jacobsen’s three-and-a-half year experience as a prisoner of war takes the reader on a brutal and harrowing march through hatred and forgiveness, fortitude and freedom. We Refused to Die is an honest memoir that shines light on one of history’s darkest moments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e1. Attack on Pearl Harbor \u003cbr\u003e2. Enemy over Clark Field \u003cbr\u003e3. Japanese Invasion of the Philippines \u003cbr\u003e4. The Orange Plan \u003cbr\u003e5. Raw Recruits \u003cbr\u003e6. Goodbye, Good Luck, and God Bless You \u003cbr\u003e7. Christmas 1941 \u003cbr\u003e8. The Battle for Bataan \u003cbr\u003e9. Surrender \u003cbr\u003e10. Death March out of Bataan \u003cbr\u003e11. Camp O’Donnell \u003cbr\u003e12. The Tayabas Work Detail\u003cbr\u003e13. Bilibid Prison \u003cbr\u003e14. Cabanatuaan Prison Camp \u003cbr\u003e15. Mother’s Door in ‘44 \u003cbr\u003e16. Exodus from the Philippines to Japan \u003cbr\u003e17. Camp No.17, Omuta, Japan \u003cbr\u003e18. Still Alive in ‘45 \u003cbr\u003e19. Senso Yamu! \u003cbr\u003e20. Waiting for the Yanks \u003cbr\u003e21. Returns to the Philippines \u003cbr\u003e22. Home at Last\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eAuthor’s Chronology \u003cbr\u003eRoster of the 20th Pursuit Squadron, April 9, 1942\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Artist, Benjamin Clark Steele\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Utah Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50095288189271,"sku":"9781607811251","price":20.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781607811251.jpg?v=1740904740","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/we-refused-to-die-my-time-as-a-prisoner-of-war-in-bataan-and-japan-1942-1945-9781607811251","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}