Conduct Under Fire

A gripping chronicle of courage in captivity, of sacrifice and survival, Conduct Under Fire recounts the fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor through the eyes of the author’s father and three fellow navy doctors taken prisoner by the Japanese in May 1942. During their three and a half years of imprisonment in the Philippines and Japan, the doctors struggled daily against disease and starvation, fighting for their own lives as well as the lives of their fellow prisoners. Glusman describes in vivid detail the hardships they endured, and their fate aboard the POW "hellships" and during the B-29 raids that burned Japan's major cities to the ground. Based on extensive interviews with American, British, Australian, and Japanese veterans, as well as diaries, letters, and war crimes testimony, Conduct Under Fire is an unforgettable account of bravery and ingenuity, one that reveals the long shadow the war cast on the lives of those who fought it.