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"Footprints in Courage: A Bataan Death March Survivor's Story" tells the inspiring tale of Army Air Corpsman Alf R. Larson who endured the infamous Bataan Death March in World War II and then faced more than four years as a Japanese prisoner of war.

"We were hot, thirsty, sick and exhausted to the point you couldn't talk, couldn't see, didn't care. After a while everything just went blank in my mind; we were hardly conscious. For six days I just put one foot in front of the other over and over and over again," Larson says of the agonizing trek that the world now calls the Bataan Death March and its 3,000 survivors (from an original 7,500 U. S. servicemen) simply call "the hike."

In "Footprints in Courage," veteran war author Kristin Gilpatrick, with the help of researcher and writer Rick Peterson, recounts Larson's battles against the Japanese, exhaustion, starvation, jungle diseases and his own mind to survive one of the most brutal and horrific environments American servicemen have ever endured.

To pre-order a copy of Footprints in Courage, email your name and contact information to Kristin Gilpatrick at kristin@badgerbooks.com or call Badger Books at (800) 928 - 2372.

Alternately, you can download the order form (PDF), print it out, and send it in.