AMERICAN HOLOCAUST: The Bataan Death March and the Prisoners of the Rising SunJoseph Galloway and Iris Change History/WWII
The Estate of Iris Chang has chosen Joe Galloway to write the book that Iris Chang never had the chance to write. American Holocaust will trace the men of the Army National Guard 192nd Tank Battalion, a unit drawn from four Midwestern towns—Maywood, IL, Janesville, WI, Harrodsburg, KY, and Port Clinton, Ohio—from its formation, through training, and to their capture by the Imperial Japanese Army in the opening days of WWII. Those who survived the brutal forced march that became known as the Bataan Death March were then dispersed to prison ships and slave labor camps throughout Japan, some of the men even becoming the subject of horrific medical experiments by the notorious Unit 731—Japan’s equivalent to the Nazis’ Dr. Mengele. Somewhat of a Band of Brothers of the Pacific theater, American Holocaust will be history at its best—intense, personal, dramatic, and absolutely riveting.
Joseph L. Galloway is best known as the co-author of the New York Times bestseller We Were Soldiers Once…And Young with Gen. Hal Moore about the furious fighting in Vietnam’s Ia Drang Valley in 1965—the first deployment of air cavalry in history. Made into a successful movie starring Mel Gibson as Gen. Moore, Galloway and Moore followed up their success with We Are Soldiers Still in 2008, again reaching the Times list.
The late Iris Chang was best known for her New York Times bestselling book The Rape of Nanking, and for becoming an advocate of an official apology from the Japanese government for atrocities committed in China during WWII. While researching this book, Chang became afflicted with severe depression, ultimately committing suicide at the age of thirty-six.
