Corregidor from Paradise to Hell

A true life story by Ben Waldron who kept a day-to-day diary for 3 1/2 years as a Prisoner of War under the Japanese. He tells about the 5 months of fierce fighting & bombing & capture of Corregidor & how some 12,000 men survived the first 21 days as hostages. Waldron was placed in 5 different P.O.W. camps in the Philippines. For the next two years, he suffered beatings, hunger, thirst & blistering heat. He writes how men survived against the odds of Disease, Malnutrition, Torture & Despondency through the inner willpower to live. These incidents, while unbelievable, are true. July 1944 Waldron was among 1,500 P.O.W.s packed in the hold of a ship & spent 62 days enroute to Japan. The horror & deaths on this Hell Ship were as you could not imagine. His last year was spent in the high mountains of Japan, where he experienced freezing cold, hunger, & beatings. When told he was going home, it was an emotional time, hard to believe. This book won the Book of the Year Award for 1989 & 1990 by the American Bookdealers Exchange of California. See Book Review, EX POW BULLETIN, March 1990 by George Falconer, editor. For Index, Contact: Author: Ben Waldron, P.O. Box 2955, Fairfield, CA 94533. For discount on volume purchase or Co-Author: Emily Burneson, 3164 S. Wheeling Way, #309, Aurora, CO 80014.Waldron, Ben is the author of 'Corregidor from Paradise to Hell' with ISBN 9780962238116 and ISBN 0962238112.