Great Raid on Cabanatuan

Name: Great Raid on Cabanatuan
Brand: Turner Publishing Company
SKU: 9780471037422
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Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor

Autor: William B. Breuer

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Early on the morning of January 28, 1945, a small detachment of volunteers under the command of Lieu...

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Autor

William B. Breuer

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1994

Pagini

258

EAN

9780471037422

ISBN

9780471037422

Enbook ID

09392721

Editura

Turner Publishing Company

Greutate

570

Dimensiuni

164 x 236 x 25

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Early on the morning of January 28, 1945, a small detachment of volunteers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry A. Mucci, leader of the 6th Ranger Battalion, embarked from their base in the Philippines on the most audacious rescue operation ever undertaken. Their objective: Penetrate thirty miles behind enemy lines and liberate 511 POWs from Cabanatuan, the notorious Japanese POW camp where thousands of American prisoners had been brutally tortured and killed. Little did Mucci's Rangers know when they got under way that morning that over the next few days and nights they would be making history. Written by acclaimed military historian William B. Breuer, The Great Raid on Cabanatuan is a riveting account of that rescue mission and the gallant soldiers who carried it out against overwhelming odds. Based largely on interviews with the heroes who survived the operation, and featuring twenty-eight previously unpublished photographs - many of them taken while the raid was in progress - it brings to life in electrifying detail the dramatic events that took place on the night of the raid, January 30, and during the harrowing days that followed. In sketching out the many roads that led to Cabanatuan, Breuer brilliantly combines oral history with dramatic narrative to bring to life some of the most spectacular events of the war in the Pacific. We relive the hellish battles for Bataan and Corregidor, where in 1942 American and Filipino soldiers fought bravely to hold back the Japanese invasion force. We experience firsthand the horrors of the Bataan Death March on which tens of thousands of prisoners lost their lives en route to Cabanatuan. And we learn of the American underground andguerilla operations in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation from the men and women behind them, including Margaret Utinsky, leader of "Miss U's underground", and Claire Phillips, the glamorous lounge singer turned spy-master. A gripping chronicle of one of the most h

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