the story of the bataan death march and its aftermath and we say yes, we needed another book. so, that is nice praise and so beth and michael are here. they are both professors at nyu, and it is really, i will say obviously they have come to write this book, to begin with beth's book published ten years ago, we band of angels, the untold story of american women trapped on the bataan by the japanese, which was published ten years ago, when beth and michael picked up this story, that led them through to expand the story of bataan, and a really haunting chapter of world war ii history. .. of 76,000 soldiers, 66,000 mile death march, prisoners of war, going quickly back to the research, i think it is the research time spent in the past week 10 years which allowed the normans to tell this story carefully and thoughtfully not just from the u.s. perspective but several points of view, american, japanese and filipino, not just from the generals in command, the soldiers on each side, a more psychological and historical context. so from elizabeth norman's book to the research, michael n

we have to protect internally displaced people and the other is to of bataan the people coming from the terrorist groups. to internally displaced people we have increased the [inaudible] for many people this is a very negative incentive. last year in the number of internally displaced people, we 156,000 people who were in accordance with the declaration. they were displaced in between 1957 and 1987. therefore we, our policy regarding internally displaced people has invited people displaced even in the middle of the last century to come to the registration office and request for further benefit. it's generosity but at the same time a big problem for the country. with internally displaced people we have advanced a lot and education will, health care, in subsidies will for them to be free from paying anything for the reason of treason, for them to guarantee their children in attendance. we left behind in social housing. if i were asked by the you know what is the main problem, you're main concern involving internally displaced people i want to confess we lack of on housing. distinguished l

. >> elizabeth and michael norman recount the conflict of the bataan peninsula in the philippines. america's first large-scale land battle of world war ii from january to april of 1942. 76,000 american and filipino soldiers and toward a 41 month imprisonment which included hard labor and torture, politics and prose bookstore in washington d.c. hosted the event. it is an hour. >> okay, good evening. we will get started. good evening and welcome to politics and prose bookstore. eyes schedular in-store events t-rec politics and prose, so for everyone here i wanted to say thank you for being here this evening, for supporting the bookstore, supporting our offence anton night supporting elizabeth and michael norman for their new book, tears and the darkness. we are very excited to have them here, to talk about this book, which really would be hard for me to contribute any higher praise than the book has, then the book has already received. it is something may be of a sleeper, which i know the author's probably would not want to label it as, but this book is really, the reviews it has rec

was somehow behind it, that she was very active in trying to get veterans of the bataan death march, to sue japan for their enslavement in the state department wasn't so happy about that but it turned out that she fed a lot of manic depressive illness or bipolar disorder that got worse after she had her son which often happens with women, and it was exacerbated by a lot of real pressures that were all around her. >> so, what was our last conversation with her? >> she called me just three days before she killed herself and that was the first time i ever said something was seriously wrong. i realize now it was a bike call and then it seemed like a strange, bizarre thing. i did not know what to make of it but that was the first time i had noticed her as really depressed and disconnected from reality. she was so depressed it was hard to get the words out. and, in retrospect she was explaining to me why she was about to do this and she talked about a lot of guilt in ways that she had raised her son. she talked about a lot of fears that she had, and that i had been a good friend to her and

forced them on alon march, about a 50-mile forced march that there's something of a resemblance to the bataan death march in so many british soldiers, loyalists, were killed during that march. let me read you the order from the american commander to his men. he issued an order and i am quoting, to restrain the disorderly manner of slaughtering the prisoners. and that was just one instance of exacting revenge for charlton's mass pursuit. it really becomes a very grim war in the south as civil wars tend to be. >> we have time for one more quick question before the break. >> you stated that the beginning that, if the seven campaign had gone better the british were hoping to hold the seven colonies and less interested at this point in holding the middle counties of new england. do you really think it was politically possible for a piece to be a arrived at under which british quebec consented to king george and consented to the independents of a large part of the colony's if they had in fact secured the whole southern area, do you think on the other hand that the middle and northern counties would

our teacher was a survivor of the bataan death march. nothing baphased her.ere will still be spanish. [laughter] everyone was listening to the bells of the national cathedral. they rang and rang. without a word, 400 young women stood up and marched single file to the gym which served as our chapel. two girls were cutting line. i thought, oh my gosh, and my best friends with them. we went to the gym and we felt immediately on our knees. they announced that president kennedy had been shot and the governor had been shot. all of our prayers' were needed. we were dismissed. no one said a word about daddy. i knew he was there. our rant searching for fresh air. i heard a young woman say, man on campus. that was a big event and all girls' school. [laughter] i looked and recognized it was a member of my father's secret service who had been left behind. i knew the reason why he was coming. i ran the other way as if i could avoid him. he ran to me, grabbed me, and i remember being on his chest saying no. he said, i am sorry. i said, no. no one ever mentioned what the no

very active veterans of the bataan death march to see japan for their enslavement. the department was not so happy about that. but it turned out she fit a lot of patterns of manic depressive illness or bipolar disorder that got worse after she had her son. that is what happens with women. her. >> what was your last conversation? >> she called me just three days before she killed herself. that was the first time i ever sensed something was very seriously rock. i realize now it was affected by col. then it just seemed like a strange, bizarre, bizarre thing. i did not know what to make of it. that was the first time i knew she was really depressed and disconnected from reality. she was so depressed it was hard to get the birds out. in retrospect she was explaining to me why she was about to do this. she talked about a lot of guilt in the way she had raised her son. she talked about a lot of fear that she had. i had been a good friend to her. it was very, very disturbing. i did not think that her life would end a few days later. >> so what did you find about iris chang?