As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp (American War Heroes)

Reading Level
Grade 9
Time to Read
5 hrs 38 mins

Reading Level

What is the reading level of As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp ?

Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp is 8th and 9th grade.

Expert Readability Tests for
As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp

Readability Test Reading Level
Flesch Kincaid Scale Grade 9
SMOG Index Grade 11
Coleman Liau Index Grade 10
Dale Chall Readability Score Grade 7

Reading Time

5 hrs 38 mins

How long to read As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp (American War Heroes)?

The estimated word count of As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp (American War Heroes) is 84,475 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 5 hrs 38 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 9 hrs 24 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 8 mins.

As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp (American War Heroes) - 84,475 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 9 hrs 24 mins
Average 250 words/min 5 hrs 38 mins
Fast 450 words/min 3 hrs 8 mins
As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp (American War Heroes) by Stephen L. Moore
Authors
Stephen L. Moore

More about As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp

84,475 words

Word Count

for As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp (American War Heroes)

368 pages

Pages
Hardcover: 368 pages
Paperback: 368 pages

9 hours and 5 minutes

Audiobook length


Description

“[A] truly uplifting tale of deliverance from certain death . . . A deeply personal read, in which the reader is drawn into the highs and lows of the action, the tragedy, and the salvation, because Moore has so successfully drawn out the characters. . . . Compelling reading and hard to put down.”—Naval HistoryThe heroic story of eleven American POWs who defied certain death in World War II, As Good as Dead is an unforgettable account of the Palawan Massacre survivors and their daring escape.  In late 1944, the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and soon the end of the Pacific War was within reach. But for the last 150 American prisoners of war still held on the island of Palawan, there would be no salvation. After years of slave labor, starvation, disease, and torture, their worst fears were about to be realized. On December 14, with machine guns trained on them, they were herded underground into shallow air raid shelters—death pits dug with their own hands. Japanese soldiers doused the shelters with gasoline and set them on fire. Some thirty prisoners managed to bolt from the fiery carnage, running a lethal gauntlet of machine gun fire and bayonets to jump from the cliffs to the rocky Palawan coast. By the next morning, only eleven men were left alive—but their desperate journey to freedom had just begun. As Good as Dead is one of the greatest escape stories of World War II, and one that few Americans know. The eleven survivors of the Palawan Massacre—some badly wounded and burned—spent weeks evading Japanese patrols. They scrounged for food and water, swam shark-infested bays, and wandered through treacherous jungle terrain, hoping to find friendly Filipino guerrillas. Their endurance, determination, and courage in the face of death make this a gripping and inspiring saga of survival.