General W. E. Brougher was captured in the Phillipines by the Japanese in 1942. He was a key critic of US policy and MacArthur's relocation to Austrailia after the fall of the Phillipines. General Brougher was a POW for 3 1/2 years (with, among others, General Wainwright) and this small volume of his poetry records his ordeal.


William Edward Brougher, was a U.S. Army general commanding the 11th Division, Philippine Army and was captured by the Japanese when the American forces in Bataan surrendered on April 9, 1942. From then on General Brougher was a part of a group of high-ranking prisoners of the Japanese. The Japanese moved them to Tarlac, then to Formosa, and finally to Manchuria. On August 18, 1945, the Russian army took Mukden and liberated the prisoners. While he was a prisoner of war, Betty's father wrote poetry, then self-published the poems after he returned home under title The Long Dark Road.


Brougher

William Edward, Brigadier-General

(1889 – 1965)
1940
- 1941
Commanding Officer 57th Regiment, Philippines
1941
- 1942
Commanding General 11th Philippine Division
1942
- 1945
Prisoner of War
1946
- 1947
Commandant Fort McClellan
1947
- 1949
Commandant Camp Gordon
1949
Retired