Prisoner of war
Prisoner of war
About this book
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.
Subjects
Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942SurvivalForced laborFictionWorld War, 1939-1945Japanese Prisoners and prisonsJuvenile fictionHistoryChildren's fictionWorld war, 1939-1945, fictionLabor, fictionJapan, fictionPhilippines, fiction