An American soldier's first person account of the nearly three years he spent in Japanese prisoner of war camps in the Philippines during World War II. Beginning with the fall of Bataan and the siege of Corregidor, and ending with the author's liberation from Bilibid Prison in Manila, the author describes his life in prison in a truthful and straightforward manner. The human spirit, and its determination to survive under even the most inhumane conditions, triumphs in this book.