(029585) Charles, H. Robert. Last Man Out. Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1999. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 223 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. Inscribed by the author on title page. The author was a Marine machine- gunner aboard the USS Houston at the time it was sunk by the Japanese in Sundra Strait in 1942. He swam nine hours, was picked up off the coast of Java by the Japanese and held forty-three months in slave labor camps in Burma, Thailand, and Saigon. 100000 Allied prisoners of wr died during World War II in Japanese slave labor camps. A valiant Dutch doctor saved the lives of hundreds, inluding the author. ISBN: 0890156476 (Concentration Camps, Burma, Prisoners Of War)
