Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath

Having read Undefeated and Bataan: The March of Death, I had a good grasp on the story. What I was not prepared for, was the Japanese personal accounts. Falk's dual-perspective narrative was impersonal in telling the story of Bataan. The Normans were not. Following Ben Steele from Montana to Bataan, they also told the stories of Japanese infantrymen. A man had wrote in his diary that his Sergeant had forced him to kill a prisoner, or to shoot those that lay in the ditch already so that they would not escape. Many of the Japanese felt the same as this Private--these men are just like us, why are we slaughtering them like animals? Unfortunately, they were not allowed to question their orders without facing death themselves. Another Japanese soldier and his unit had been selected to bayonet blindfolded and wire-linked prisoners. He told of the moans that would never leave his ears. Having read this as my third book now, I am really beginning to question the morality of man.