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On January 28th, 1945, a raid was organized on the Cabanatuan prison camp in the Philippines to free the 511 POWs held there. Originally published: The great raid on Cabanatuan. New York : J. Wiley & Sons, 1994. xxi, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

This book is a tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: march thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent three years in a surreally hellish camp near the city of Cabanatuan. ...

Scope and content: De bevrijding op de Filippijnen van een Japans krijgsgevangenenkamp in de omgeving van Cabanatuan in 1945 door een kleine elite-eenheid van het zesde US Ranger Battalion. 347 p., [16] p. pl. : ill., foto's, krt. ; 23 cm.

Praise for The Great Raid on Cabanatuan "An exciting narrative presented by a first-rate storyteller."--Publishers Weekly Acclaim for Feuding Allies "An absorbing look at the impact of Alliance politics on the outcome of WW II."--Kirkus Reviews. "As combat veterans and high commanders know, logic is often a stranger in wartime."--William Breuer, in Unexplained Mysteries of World War II. From Germany's ...