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Web Resources
[|PBS American Experience: The Bataan Death March]
 * Maps and first hand accounts.

[|A Survivor's Story]
 * Interview with survivor Alf Larson.

[|Eyewitness to History - The Bataan Death March]
 * The recollections of survivor Captain William Dyess.

Print Resources
Please remember that these titles are suggestions for starting points. Many additional titles can be found in the 940.5 to 940.938 section of the library or by accessing and searching the [|library catalog].

//Ghost Soldiers// by Hampton Sides **940.542 SIDES**
 * The account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II: the rescue of American and British POWs behind enemy lines in the Philippines.

//The Bataan Death March ////: World War II Prisoners in the Pacific//by Robert Greenberger **J 940.5472 Greenberger**
 * Discusses the Bataan Death March of April 1942, in which tens of thousands of American and Filipino prisoners-of-war were forced to march miles under brutal conditions to a prison camp.

// Bataan Death March ////: A Soldier's Story//by James Bollich; foreword by Jesse Knowles **940.54725 BOLL**
 * This journal recounts the 65-mile journey, during which prisoners had no food, water, or rest. The author survived the POW camps on the Philippine island of Luzon.

Primary Sources and Photographic Resources
[|The Library of Congress]
 * Search for Bataan Death March

Photographic Resources
[|Creative Commons]
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