"Barbed Wire and Rice:
Poems from Japanese Prison Camp"
Collected by B.D. McKendree



    The book is available in paperback ($14+shipping and handling) from:
    Cornell East Asia Program
    140 Uris Hall
    Ithaca, NY 14853-7601
    Phone: (607)255-6222

    or, for an autographed copy, send $14 + $1.50 for shipping to:

    B.D. McKendree
    4808 West Frances Pl.
    Austin, TX 78731


    This is a book not just about poetry but about history, pride, humiliation, and the human spirit.   It includes a short biography of Mr McKendree, who grew up in a small West Texas town, was a cowboy on some of the large ranches, and enlisted when the war began.   He tells of his war experiences with candor and evenhandedness.   After the war, he went to the University of Texas on the GI bill and received a degree in petroleum engineering.


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