The Hotel Tacloban
Captured by the Japanese while on patrol in the fetid jungles of New Guinea, Douglas Valentine's father, who'd enlisted in the US Army at age sixteen, was sent to a prison camp in the Philippines, where he was interned with Australian and British soldiers. The events that followed make up this "well-told, chilling" story of betrayal and brutality—a powerful tale of a son uncovering the traumatic events that shaped the rest of his father's life ( Los Angeles Times Book Review).