Customer Reviews

Silence of a Soldier

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Silence Of A Soldier is the personal memoir of Bub Merrill, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, as told to William J. Duggan. A strong and vividly recounted testimony of survival in the face of the exceedingly brutal and often lethal treatment that Japanese forces inflicted upon their American and British prisoners of war, Silence Of A Soldier is told with candor and unflinching detail. A welcome contribution to the growing library of World War II autobiographies, Silence Of A Soldier is very highly recommended reading.

What I enjoyed most about this was the way the horrific story was told in matter of fact language sans bluster, sans hubris and with honest humility. There is little humility in today's writing---and in today's USA. Too bad. We've lost something.
This is by no means another of the books romanticizing WWII as the 'good' war. It tells it like it was, and for that reason alone, in a culture that worships war and slaughter, it will never be widely read.
If you want to understand what war is, reading this will be a beginning.

I read this story many years ago and have never forgotten it. It tells a story of war everyone should know.