Dimensions
139 x 199 x 15mm
For more than fifty years it was stored in a footlocker. A remarkable tale of survival, The War Journal of Major Damon "Rocky" Gause is one soldier's chronicle of his 159-day escape from the infamous Bataan Death March, and his harrowing voyage across the enemy-held Pacific to Australia in a leaky, wooden boat during World War II.
Immediately following his return, Major Gause wrote his gripping memoir using notes from the battered ship's log and the handmade diary he kept throughout the journey. Recounting how he dodged enemy patrols, weathered tropical storms, swam through shark infested waters, was strafed by Japanese fighter planes and nearly starved, Gause's journal is one of the most extraordinary stories of World War II and pays tribute to the men who fought and died beside him.
