The Great Raid: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor
Provides an in-depth account of the fall of the Philippines during World War II to the Japanese, the harsh treatment of American and Filipino POWs, and the 1945 raid by a band of American Rangers and …
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