Author Joseph.A.Patak

Author and synopsis
  The author is a war photographer of the 228 signal army of America.  a soldier who is one of the first batch of American army who joined the battle with Japanese in Philippine. When Luzon island was captured by Japanese, he and his comrades were captured by Japanese. They  were detained in Philippine. Then they were sent to prisoner camp factory of Shenyang of China . As he know the machine manufacture, he was asked to design the factory and maintain the equipment .He was liberated when the united states air force bombed factory of prisoner camp on Dec 7 th,1944 . He suffered the humiliation, starve. sickness, and attempted to escaped from the prison several times. The inhuman treatment in three years helped the author to describe the Japanese imperialism. As the author is skilled in Japanese, he understands the Japanese more than other prisoners. There are intense revolting mood among the prisoners and plots that the prisoners intentionally smashed the equipment .

The ruin of  Shenyang camp of prisoners of English and American during the world war two

   The author asked for mental treatment after the war. with the help of a psychiatry. He used his experience and other reference to write this book which was finished in 1947.It was reintegrated and published in 1989.There is no book on the life of the prisoner in Shenyang ever. This book reappeared 1408 American(includes the author), 100 English,  Australian, New zealanders, Singapore persons.  Canadian, Dutch.. The list of all the prisoner. the force designator and address are provided.
  The book is divided into 49 chapters, the first twelve chapters tell the life of the prisoners before they were sent to  Shenyang.                                    It is after the Luzon island was captured by Japanese that the prisoners of American army were detained in the four prisons of Philippine. They  suffered the humiliation. They were enslaved as the animal. They tried to escape from the prison . The chapters from 13 to 49 narrate the three years life in Shenyang and the life since they were released.
             (Dengyue)