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Behind the Barbed Wire Memoir of a World War II US Marine Captured in North China in 1941 and Imprisoned by the Japanese Until 1945 Author: On December 8, 1941, Japanese troops methodically took over the U.S. Marine guard posts at Peiping and Tientsin, causing both to surrender. Imprisoned first at Woosung and then at Kiangwan in China, the men were forced to laboriously construct a replica of Mount Fujiyama. It soon became apparent that their mountain was to be used as a rifle rang... more »
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