My father dreamed of writing the story of himself and his fellow POWs. But he was convinced that his lack of formal education made him unqualified because he dropped out of school during the Great Depression, as a sixth grader, to help support his family.

The book begins with his capture, follows him through captivity in five POW camps and ends with his liberation. He was starved, frozen, isolated, and denied medical care after a beating with a rifle that caused a serious head injury. He saw his men murdered and their corpses abused. And yet, his story of wartime atrocities and the murder of innocents is also a story of bravery, loyalty and patriotism.

It is an emotional, compelling, personal account that will inform the reader of what it was like to be involved in a firefight, be marched over 120 miles into North Korea, what life was in the POW camps. But it also had its lighter moments, telling of what it was like to spoil the communists’ May Day celebration.