Rescue at Los Baños : the most daring prison camp raid of World War II / Bruce Henderson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062325068 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 006232506X (hbk.)
- Physical Description: 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Map on front lining paper. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-356) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The fall of Manila -- Prisoners of the Japanese -- Los Baños Internment Camp -- Sky soldiers -- "You'll be eating dirt" -- Return to the Philippines -- Freedom week -- Under the cover of darkness -- The killings -- "Do it right, Joe" -- The escapes -- The Los Baños force -- "Rescue must come soon!" -- "The world will be watching" -- The raid -- Rescue -- "God was with us" -- The fate of Sadaaki Konishi. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | 940.5472 H496r 2015 (Text) | 33126020356048 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2015 March #2
Journalist and veteran Henderson, author or coauthor of more than 20 nonfiction books (Hero Found; Down to the Sea), provides greater recognition of the gripping story of the recovery on February 23, 1945 of 2,146 mostly American, mostly civilian men, women, and children imprisoned in a Japanese-run internment camp in the Philippines. Both the U.S. 11th Airborne Division, tasked by General MacArthur, and a diverse group of Filipino guerillas released the deliberately starved and medicine-deprived internees from a repurposed college campus on Luzon set ironically in a lush agricultural area. The author uses oral interviews, written and photographic documentation, and secondary sources for historical context (endnoted but without page references) in this heartrending tale of abusive treatment and ultimate survival. VERDICT This narrative of one event depicting the horrors of war and its resolution should broaden the perspective of general readers of 20th-century military history. Although a monument, a ceremony, and a joint U.S. congressional resolution honored this liberation on its 60th anniversary, the event was underpublicized at the time since Joe Rosenthal's iconic photograph of the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima taken the same day received more media coverage. [See Prepub Alert, 9/14/14.]âFrederick J. Augustyn Jr., Lib. of Congress, Washington, DC
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