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More Lives Than One

Charles Bracelen Flood

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Harry Purdick was one of thousands of young Americans called into service and thrown into battle at the outbreak of the Korean War. Summoned to face one enemy, they were engulfed by another --- Communist China.

Harry's story enters a new dimension when he is captured by the Chinese. Through an error, he is reported Killed In Action, leaving Anne, his fiancee, hopeless and grieving in a complacent home-front life that goes on without him. Because the Chinese interpreter Chung prevents him from writing home, he is lost to everything he has known before.

Harry is determined to return to a life, and a girl, that are changing without him. He survives the death marches, bombing by his own planes, exposure, starvation. In the infamous Chinese prison camps, he endures the man-cracking political lectures and punishments. He sees some Americans collaborate with their captors, and others die rather than give in. Huddling frozen in huts at night, warmed only by the never-extinguished GI humor, he comes to know his own countrymen has he never did in their own plentiful land. Forged in suffering, his vision is not of vengeance upon the Chinese, but of returning to the United States to educate himself to play a part in the future American role in Asia.

Language: English

Pages: 306

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Release: May 19, 1967

More Lives Than One

Charles Bracelen Flood

0/5 ( ratings)

Harry Purdick was one of thousands of young Americans called into service and thrown into battle at the outbreak of the Korean War. Summoned to face one enemy, they were engulfed by another --- Communist China.

Harry's story enters a new dimension when he is captured by the Chinese. Through an error, he is reported Killed In Action, leaving Anne, his fiancee, hopeless and grieving in a complacent home-front life that goes on without him. Because the Chinese interpreter Chung prevents him from writing home, he is lost to everything he has known before.

Harry is determined to return to a life, and a girl, that are changing without him. He survives the death marches, bombing by his own planes, exposure, starvation. In the infamous Chinese prison camps, he endures the man-cracking political lectures and punishments. He sees some Americans collaborate with their captors, and others die rather than give in. Huddling frozen in huts at night, warmed only by the never-extinguished GI humor, he comes to know his own countrymen has he never did in their own plentiful land. Forged in suffering, his vision is not of vengeance upon the Chinese, but of returning to the United States to educate himself to play a part in the future American role in Asia.

Language: English

Pages: 306

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Release: May 19, 1967

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