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This is a personal account by a member of General MacArthur's staff of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in World War II, the fall of Bataan and Corregidor, his own capture by the enemy and his imprisonment in a POW camp, and the conditions at the camp. The author also describes his escape and work with the guerrilla forces and his participation in the recapture of Corregidor in February 1945. ...

Nineteen papers--including artistic and Jewish perspectives-- probe issues of Japanese responsibility and redress for such World War II atrocities as the Bataan death march, the Rape of Nanjing, and sexual slavery. The translated Tokyo Appeal from a 1999 war crimes forum is appended. Parts of the book derive from this forum and a journal that Li (Asian studies, comparative literature, Rutgers U.) edits. ...

First edition. 314 pages : maps ; 22 cm

An anti-Axis parade in New York City. Boy scouts carry American flags; American soldiers and sailors march by. A contingent of British or Canadian soldiers, followed by women in uniform. Floats include: one with a sign reading, "Holland;" a horse-drawn hearse with a sign that reads: "The Crime of Lidice." Women in evening gowns ride a float with a globe atop it; a decorated float labelled "Bataan and ...

The Imperial Japanese Army was a legend in its own time. To the defenders of Singapore and Bataan, its soldiers were demonic supermen. The willingness of Japan consistently to fight to the last man remains a benchmark of courage today. Yet these heroes of Saipan and Iwo Jima were also capable of unparalleled bestiality--the rape of Nanking, the use of slave labor on the Burma-Siam Railway, gross neglect ...

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. ...

Hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces launched a devastating attack on U.S. troops in the Philippines. In May 1942, after months of battle with no reinforcements and no hope of victory, the remaining American forces, holed up on the tiny island of Corregidor, suffered a humiliating defeat, and 11,000 fighting men became prisoners of war in the largest American capitulation since ...

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 ...