Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 258 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. book is clean and tight, the back cover has a crease, the spine is not creased, no markings.

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Title: The Great Raid: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor
Publisher: Miramax Books, New York, NY
Publication Date: 2002
Language: English
ISBN 10: 078688780X
ISBN 13: 9780786887804
Binding: Trade paperback
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Very good.

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Synopsis

Provides an in-depth account of the fall of the Philippines during World War II to the Japanese, the harsh treatment of American and Filipino POWs, and the 1945 raid by a band of American Rangers and Filipino Scouts on a Japanese POW camp to liberated incarcerated American soldiers. Reprint.

About the Author

William B. Breuer is the acclaimed and award-winning author of thirty-four books, focusing on World War II, the CIA, and the FBI, as well as the Korean War. Fourteen of his books have been selections of the Military Book Club. He lives in Cleveland, Tennessee.

General Barry McCaffrey as a combat officer has twice received the Distinguished Service Cross and has been awarded three Purple Heart medals. A retired four-star general, he has served as director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and is now a national security analyst for NBC News.

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