"We were given our mail that had accumulated in the Japanese store room. I got fifty-four letters, some of them dating from six months after I'd been captured.... All my letters were from my mother..."

http://www.amazon.com/Abandoned-Bataan-Mans-Story-Survival/dp/0971318417

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Abandoned on Bataan: One Man's Story of Survival [Paperback]

Oliver Craig Allen (Author), Mildred Faye Allen (Author)