Belly of the Beast

“A searing tribute . . . [to] America in its bleakest hour” (Sen. John McCain, New York Times– bestselling author of Faith of My Fathers ). On December 13, 1944, POW Estel Myers was herded aboard the Japanese prison ship, the Oryoku Maru , with more than sixteen hundred other American captives. More than eleven hundred of them would be dead by journey’s end . . . The son of a Kentucky sharecropper and an enlistee in the navy’s medical corps, Myers arrived in Manila shortly before the bombings of