The Hotel Tacloban

A very dramatic [and] compelling World War II story of murder, mutiny, and a military cover-up, from the author of The Phoenix Program (The New York Times). Captured by the Japanese while on patrol in the fetid jungles of New Guinea, Douglas Valentines father, whod enlisted in the US Army at age sixteen, was sent to a prison camp in the Philippines, where he was interned with Australian and British soldiers. The events that followed make up this well-told, chilling story of betrayal and brutalitya powerful tale of a son uncovering the traumatic events that shaped the rest of his fathers life (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Not just a searing picture of life in a terrible POW camp, it is also a significant historical document about a place that the U.S. military says never existed. Publishers Weekly