Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.7
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
56595
Points per Word
0.000177
Page Count
181
Points per Page
0.055249
Description
This newly discovered memoir relates one WWII soldier's extraordinary escape from the Japanese invasion of the Philippines and the fortress of Corregidor as he made his way through jungles and villages and then across the Pacific in a leaky boat.