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"In April 1942, Sidney Stewart, a 21-year-old U.S. Army enlisted man, was captured at Bataan. For nearly three and a half years, until he was liberated by the Russians in Manchuria, he remained a prisoner of war. Here is his account of this long and terrifying captivity. ""It is one of the most harrowing and debilitating chronicles that I have read. . . . He describes the ordeal brilliantly; he harbors no resentments apparently, and he has emerged from an inferno of bestiality with utter serenity."" — Maxwell Geismar, Saturday Review ""An impressive and moving book."" — David Dempsey, New York Times ""His is no ordinary prisoner-of-war story; better written than most, it contains no tales of swashbuckling defiance. . . . The force of this book is its testimony to the indomitable strength of the human spirit."" — Manchester Guardian ""The plain narrative of this story would by itself have been fascinating, but this book is far more than a story, it is a work of art."" — André Siegfried, Academie Francaise ""Sidney Stewart's composed narrative is one of the most noble documents ever penned by a prisoner of war. The companions he writes about remained men to the end, until at last only one man remained; he survived to write this unforgettable, this magnificent story."" — George Slocombe, New York Herald Tribune [Paris]"

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Sidney Stewart lived in Europe for many years. He died in Paris in 1998.

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