The Hotel Tacloban

This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs. author photo box: author has submitted photo to be used, on floppy disk, file name: doug1.tif author bio box: Douglas Valentine lives with his wife Alice in western Massachusetts. He is the author of The Phoenix Program, a shattering account of the most ambitious and closely guarded operation of the Vietnam War. book description box: In this extraordinary story of World War II, the author's father, who enlisted in the army at age 16, describes the experiences that would affect the course of his life. Douglas Valentine tells of his capture by the Japanese in the fetid jungle of New Guinea, as well as his internment with Australian and British prisoners-of-war in the Hotel Tacloban — a place where no mercy was shown or expected, and from which few came home alive. A celebration of camaraderie and a testament to "the soldier's faith", this is a story of murder, mutiny and an incredible military cover-up.