Updated on June 1, 2009
Authors Michael and Elizabeth Norman
are currently writing the story of the
Death March, POW Camps and Hell Ships
and how that experience affected the
lives of the men who survived.
See this link,
Tears in the Darkness,
for information about the
Normans' book which has now (June 1, 2009) been published.
A Little About the Normans
Michael served with the 2nd Battalion,
9th Marines in Vietnam. He is a decorated
veteran with 27 combat operations on his record.
He is a tenured professor of journalism,
New York University & former reporter
for the New York Times.
He is the author of
These Good Men
Random House, 1990.
"Beth" is a tenured professor
of nursing at New York University; author of
We Band of Angels
the story of the American military nurses
captured by the Japanese during WWII.