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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Conduct Under Fire by John A. Glusman Glusman, John A. 1956– PERSONAL: Born February 3, 1956, in New York, NY; son of Murray and Louise (Johns) Glusman; married; children: three. Education: Columbia College, B.A., 1978; Columbia University, M.A., 1980. Politics: Democrat. ADDRESSES: Home —Glen Ridge, NJ. Office —Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 19 Union Sq. W., New York, NY 10003. CAREER: Modern Library, New York, NY, managing editor, 1982–84; Vintage and Random House, New York, NY, associate editor, 1983– 84; Washington Square Press, New York, NY, editor-in-chief, 1984–86; Collier Books, New York, NY, editor-in-chief, beginning 1986; Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, NY, senior executive editor, then editor, beginning 1986; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, NY, currently editor-in-chief. Has also taught at New School for Social Research (now New School University) and Columbia University. Consulting editor for Columbia College Today and Zoetrope; Former member, Helsinki Watch Committee. WRITINGS: Conduct under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941–1945 , Viking (New York, NY), 2005. Contributor to periodicals, including Economist, Washington Post Book World, Christian Science Monitor , and Rolling Stone . Former contributing editor, Paris Review . SIDELIGHTS: John A. Glusman has worked in the publishing field since 1980, holding a number of editorial and management positions. Most recently, he has worked as editor-in-chief of New York-based publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux. In 2005 Glusman wrote his first book, Conduct under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941–1945 . He had begun researching the book in 2001 when he traveled to the Philippines with his father, Murray Glusman, who had spent years in the country as a prisoner of war. The book's narrative revolves around Murray Glusman and three other Navy doctors—John Bookman, George Ferguson, and Fred Berley—who were captured during World War II on the fall of Corregidor and spent over three years as prisoners of the Japanese. The story follows the doctors through 1945 as they struggle to keep themselves and their fellow prisoners alive. The book's detailed account of life in a Japanese POW camp also addresses the larger struggle between the cultures of the East and West. A number of critics found the author's use of a wide variety of research materials to be a major asset to Conduct under Fire . "Interviews with veterans … coupled with the use of diaries, letters, and war crimes testimony, make this essential for all libraries," attested David Lee Poremba in Library Journal . Other reviewers noted the book's in-depth analysis on the long-lasting effects of war on soldiers and families. The book is a "thoughtful, humane meditation on war and family history, full of myth-bursting truths," concluded a Kirkus Reviews contributor. Glusman told CA: "My interest in writing dates back to my early days in publishing when I began first to review books, then to write essay-length articles, then to conduct interviews and write travel pieces and opinion pieces. As a book editor, I resisted writing a book for a very long time— knowing how much time and effort it would entail. But it seemed that if I didn't write Conduct under Fire , someone else—without the personal connection to the story—might, and that got my competitive juices flowing. "Many writers have influenced me over the years. For Conduct under Fire , Ronald Spector's Eagle against the Sun: The American War with Japan , and John Dower's War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War were perhaps the two most important influences on me. They're scholarly in approach, brilliantly researched, and beautifully written, so a trade audience as well as an academic one can appreciate them. "I spent a year or so researching Conduct under Fire , reading all of the published accounts—and many unpublished—of Allied prisoners of the Japanese. I traveled to the Philippines, I traveled to Japan, worked with a Japanese researcher and a translator, scoured collections in the National Archives, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, the Archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, and I interviewed at length American, British, Australian, and Japanese veterans. Then, one day, I sat down at my computer—I remember the day well—paused, and began to write. I wrote almost every day for fifteen months, in the very early hours of the morning, late at night, on the weekends, on the train while commuting to work—whenever and wherever I had spare time. "I was surprised by how much I enjoyed writing. I found it wonderfully stimulating, intellectually challenging, occasionally frustrating, but always rewarding. "I think F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is the perfect American novel, and consider Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man the perfect British—rather, Irish—novel. In that context, Richard Ellmann's biography of Joyce is one of the best biographies I've ever read, and I find the work of military historian Douglas Porch, who has written on Morocco, the Sahara, and the Mediterranean theater in World War II, fascinating, wonderfully well written, and barbed with humor and insight." BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES: PERIODICALS. Kirkus Reviews , March 15, 2005, review of Conduct under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941–1945 , p. 332. Library Journal , May 1, 2005, David Lee Poremba, review of Conduct under Fire , p. 101. Publishers Weekly , March 21, 2005, review of Conduct under Fire , p. 44; May 9, 2005, Michael Scharf, "Operating in War's Theater," interview with John A. Glusman, p. 28. Conduct Under Fire by John A. Glusman. ISBN 0670034088 Viking Press. Winner of the Colby Medal for Military History February 2007. Conduct Under Fire - Four American Doctors and their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese 1941-1945 by John Glusman, , Viking Press, 2005 Buy at Amazon. In "Conduct Under Fire" , John A. Glusman recounts the ordeals of his father and three fellow Navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May 1942. Interwoven in the scenes of battle, Glusman relates with startling clarity, the savagery and contempt the Japanese visited on the victims of their war to seize the Pacific nations. Glusman's extraordinary writing skills vividly conjures up all of your senses to place you there at the surrender of Bataan and the days that followed. One wants to duck for cover as he tells of the bombardments of Corregidor, scream for air in the fetid suffocating air of the packed holds of the hell ships - carrying the sick and starving prisoners for slave labor in Japan and finally, to weep for the patients who die because of the Japanese hatred of the "anglos". Perhaps one learns more than needed about the effects of starvation but this is a book about the war through the eyes of the beloved doctors. Conduct Under Fire by John A. Glusman. CONDUCT UNDER FIRE 1941 - 1945 BY JOHN A. GLUSMAN. CONDUCT UNDER FIRE 1941 - 1945 By John A. Glusman. Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese. The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese. In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father, Murray, and three fellow navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May 1942. Here are the dramatic stories of the fall of Bataan, the siege of "The Rock," and the daily struggles to tend to the sick, wounded, and dying during some of the heaviest bombardments of World War II. Here also is the desperate war doctors and corpsmen waged against disease and starvation amid an enemy that viewed surrender as a disgrace. To survive, the POWs functioned as a family. But the ties that bind couldn�t protect them from a ruthless counteroffensive waged by American submarines or from the B-29 raids that burned Japan�s major cities to the ground. Based on extensive interviews with American, British, Australian, and Japanese veterans, as well as diaries, letters, and war crimes testimony, this is a harrowing account of a brutal clash of cultures, of a race war that escalated into total war. Like Flags of Our Fathers and Ghost Soldiers , Conduct Under Fire is a story of bravery on the battlefield and ingenuity behind barbed wire, one that reveals the long shadow the war cast on the lives of those who fought it. 16 pages of B & W Photos. Some links to help you purchase "Conduct Under Fire " Conduct Under Fire by John A. Glusman. Interview with Mr. John A. Glusman The author of Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945 (Viking, 2005, www.conductunderfire.com ) Congratulations on having published this remarkable book, Conduct Under Fire. Synopsis of your book, which received advanced praise from many prominent people including Professor John Dower, reads like the following. The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese. In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father, Murray, and three fellow navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May 1942. Here are the dramatic stories of the fall of Bataan, the siege of "the Rock," and the daily struggles to tend the sick, wounded, and dying during some of the heaviest bombardments of World War II.

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