Based on Burgos’s account, why do you think the Japanese separated American and Filipino prisoners? Select the most likely answer.
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How did the treatment of Americans at the prisoner of war camp compare with the treatment they received on the march through Bataan?
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Dyess’s book was published when the war was still being fought. Beck and Burgos were interviewed in the 1990s, five decades after the war. How did Dyess’s account of the Bataan Death March differ from Beck’s and Burgos’s accounts? How were the accounts similar? Describe your answer in at least three sentences.
Dyess published his account while the war was still going on, so it was written close to the events. Beck and Burgos spoke about the march in interviews about five decades later, sharing their own recollections and perspectives. Despite the differences in timing and viewpoint, all three accounts described the prisoners’ grim conditions and the suffering and brutality of the march.
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