Rescue at Los Baños : the most daring prison camp raid of World War II / Bruce Henderson.

Draws on personal interviews, diaries, correspondence, memoirs, and archival research to document the bold 1945 World War II prison camp raid at Los Baños in the Philippines that freed more than two thousand brutalized men, women, and children.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Henderson, Bruce B., 1946-
Language:English
Published: New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015]
Edition:First Edition.
Subjects:
Physical Description:366 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimile, photographs ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a 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" -- Epilogue: The fate of Sadaaki Konishi -- Dramatis personae -- Sources -- Appendix: the camp roster. 
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