Tenney's searing wartime experiences and a subsequent close friendship with a Japanese exchange student bring a unique perspective to the current debates over Japan's wartime culpability, the morality of the atomic bombings, and relations today between Japanese and Americans. My Hitch in Hell is a first-person account of one of the twentieth century's great tragedies and a prisoner survival epic that contains inspiring lessons for everyone.

Includes index. Foreword by Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale, U.S. Navy (Ret.)

A hitch in company B -- Surprise attack -- The fall of Bataan -- The march -- Our first camp -- Life with the guerrillas -- Back to Bataan, to work -- Cabanatuan -- The nightmare ship -- The coal mine -- Camp 17 -- Fun and games -- "We honor you with head cut off" -- Bombs and beatings -- Our war is over -- "America and Japan now friends" -- Looking for the Americans -- Meeting my brother -- Back to the Philippines -- Home at last -- Japan revisited.