Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath »

MICHAEL NORMAN, a former reporter for The New York Times, teaches narrative journalism at New York University.

ELIZABETH M. NORMAN, the author of two books about war, teaches at New York University s Steinhardt School of Education.

Tears in the Darkness is an altogether new look at World War II that exposes the myths of war and shows the extent of suffering and loss on both sides.

The New York Times - Dwight Garner

…stirring and humane …Tears in the Darkness is authoritative history. Ten years in the making, it is based on hundreds of interviews with American, Filipino and Japanese combatants. But it is also a narrative achievement. The book seamlessly blends a wide-angle view with the stories of many individual participants. And at this book's beating emotional heart is the tale of just one American soldier, a young cowboy and aspiring artist out of Montana named Ben Steele.