
Ensnared in a Spider's Web
In December of 1940, Morgan Thomas Jones, Jr. enlisted in the New Mexico National Guard and chose his state''s regiment to fulfill what was to have been one year of military service. Instead, Morgan ended up serving more than five years in the Army-most of that time as a Japanese prisoner of war. This memoir is one of the last written accounts of an American who survived the defense of the Philipp...
In December of 1940, Morgan Thomas Jones, Jr. enlisted in the New Mexico National Guard and chose his state''s regiment to fulfill what was to have been one year of military service. Instead, Morgan ended up serving more than five years in the Army-most of that time as a Japanese prisoner of war. This memoir is one of the last written accounts of an American who survived the defense of the Philipp...