Undefeated America's Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor

Name: Undefeated America's Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor
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ISBN: 9781439199657

ISBN-10: 1439199655

ISBN-13: 9781439199657

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Authors: Bill Sloan

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This epic story recounts the exceptional valor and endurance of American troops that battled Japanese forces in the Philippines during World War II.The fight to defend the Philippines from Japanese invasion during 1941 to 1942 ended with the surrender of the largest U.S. military force ever. American servicemen endured rampant disease, near-starvation, the horrors of the Bataan Death March, and life as prisoners of war.Undefeatedcaptures the fortitude and suffering of the American defenders of the Philippines as no other book has done. Bill Sloan, hailed as “the master of the combat narrative” (TheDallas Morning News), interviewed more than thirty war veterans and drew from unpublished oral…

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List price: $21.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/18/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Bill Sloan is a respected military historian and the author of more than a dozen books, including Brotherhood of Heroes and The Ultimate Battle. A former investigative reporter and feature writer for the Dallas Times-Herald,nbsp;where he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Sloan lives in Dallas, Texas.




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Paradise Lost



A Black-and-Blue Christmas



The Last Bridge to Nowhere



Victory, Retreat, and a Final Charge



Abandoning the Battling Bastards



Chaos on a Collapsing Front



Through One Hell to Another



The Rock-"A Shining Example"



O'Donnell and Other Horrors



Hell Ships-Voyages to Oblivion



Escape-The Ultimate Revenge



A Race Between Freedom and Death



New Lives, Old Scars


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