ISBN: 979-8218564551
An American at War is the story of the author’s Connecticut uncle, Sigfried Schreiner (1918–1991), who enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force in 1939, was stationed in the Philippines at the time of Pearl Harbor, endured the infamous Bataan Death March, and survived four years as a slave laborer in a Japanese POW camp in Manchuria.
This memoir is based on Schreiner’s detailed and painfully explicit diaries from the time and from his recovery period in the year immediately after the war ended.
An American at War:
Surviving Bataan, Mukden, and the Trauma of Recovery
Author’s Note
“Many WW II veterans were reluctant to talk to their families about their wartime experiences. Too many vital recollections of distressing events are often lost with the passage of time. All of the men and women who served this country in a just cause deserve better than silence and oblivion.”
— John Loughery (from the book’s conclusion)