A thrilling account of the most daring American P.O.W. rescue mission
of World War II.
Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, America entered World War II, and
a new theater of battle opened up in the Pacific. But US troops, along
with thousands of Filipino soldiers who fought alongside them, were
overtaken in the Philippines by a fiercely determined Japanese navy, and
many Americans and Filipino fighters were killed or captured.
These American and Filipino prisoners of war were forced to endure the
most horrific conditions on the deadly trek known as the Bataan Death
March. Then, the American servicemen who were held captive by the
Japanese military in Cabanatuan Camp and others in the Philippines,
faced beatings, starvation, and tropical diseases, and lived constantly
under the threat of death.
Unable to forget their comrades' fate and concerned that these POWs
would be brutally murdered as the tides of war shifted in the Pacific,
the US Army Rangers undertook one of the most daring and dangerous
rescue missions of all time. Aided by the "Angels of the Underground,"
the Sixth Ranger Battalion and courageous Filipino guerrilla soldiers
set out on an uncertain and treacherous assignment. Often called the
Great Raid, this remarkable story remains largely forgotten.
Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson presents an extraordinary and
unflinching look at the heroic servicemen and women who courageously
weathered the worst of circumstances and conditions in service to their
country, as well as those who answered the call to save their fellow
soldiers.
