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Gigantes, Philip Dean (Gerassimos Gigantes) I Should Have Died DS 921 D42 1979
Mr. Gigantes is a scion of one of Greece's legendary military familes from WW's I and II. Hired as a stringer by the London Observer as a Korean War Correspondent, he takes too many 'foolish risks'--including actually participating in the fighting-- and is taken prisoner. The first part of the book of course spends alot of time talking about the dismal conditions in POW camps, but the most unique aaspect of this book are the authors numerous flashbacks, reveries, even hallucinations about his youth in Greece; and the terrific pressure and abuse he endured in living up to his family name.
The rest of the book is about his later career as a journalist and does not directly relate to the korean War and this website.
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