Last Man Out

Have you ever wanted to read a book based on an Iowan that was a P.O.W., prisoner of war? If you said yes in your mind, then you need to read the book Last Man Out. This book was written by Bob Wilbanks and was based in 1941 and it is a true story about the POW Glenn McDole on how he was captured by the Japanese and was forced to do hard labor in the Japanese work camps. Before he was captured he was first in Los Banos, a town in the Philippines, hiding military planes so the Japanese wouldn’t blow them up since they attacked Pearl Harbor. A few days later the Japanese figured out that they were hiding the planes and then they bombed them.  He was then transferred to an island called Corregidor which is an military island that looks like a tadpole. Once he got there he was in charge of making sure the general was safe and not in danger. Then one day the Japanese conducted a major attack and captured most of the people that tried to escape including Glenn McDole and they were forced to do the battalion death march to the Japanese work camp where they were to work or be killed.  Glenn McDole survived a year and a half in conditions you and I can’t even imagine. He survived on one small meal a day of rice or beans.  The P.O.W.’s were tortured or executed for disobeying the Japanese camp officers.   If you want to learn more about Glenn McDole and the struggles he went through you need to read this book

If I was to rate this book I would rate this book a ten out of ten because it shows the solider point of view and it also informs you on the other things about world war two that you wouldn’t know about. Being a fan of war stories I thought that it was very educational and a good way to hear about what Glenn experienced in his life time as a P.O.W.  in large detail.  If I was going to recommend this book to anyone I would recommend it to people that like war stories and true stories about the life of others this would be a good book for you to read in your free time this would be the book.

Book Review by Andre G.