Bruce Henderson 
Rescue at Los Banos [EPUB ebook] 
The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II

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From the New York Times-bestselling author of Sons and Soldiers comes the incredible true story of one of the greatest military rescues of all time.In February 1945, as the US victory in the Pacific drew nearer, the Japanese army grew desperate, and its soldiers guarding U.S. and Allied POWs more sadistic. Starved, shot and beaten, many of the 2, 146 prisoners of the Los Banos prison camp in the Philippines-most of them American men, women and children-would not survive much longer unless rescued soon.Deeply concerned about the half-starved and ill-treated prisoners, General Douglas Mac Arthur assigned to the 11th Airborne Division a dangerous rescue mission deep behind enemy lines that became a deadly race against the clock. The Los Banos raid would become one of the greatest triumphs of that war or any war; hailed years later by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin Powell: "I doubt that any airborne unit in the world will ever be able to rival the Los Banos prison raid. It is the textbook operation for all ages and all armies."Combining personal interviews, diaries, correspondence, memoirs, and archival research, Rescue at Los Banos tells the story of a remarkable group of prisoners-whose courage and fortitude helped them overcome hardship, deprivation, and cruelty-and of the young American soldiers and Filipino guerrillas who risked their lives to save them."Riveting . . . Readers [will] be both shocked by the conditions that POWs had to endure and appreciative of the bravery and ingenuity of that generation we have come to call the greatest." -The Washington Post

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Мова Англійська ● Формат EPUB ● ISBN 9780062325082 ● Видавець HarperCollins ● Опубліковано 2015 ● Завантажувані 3 разів ● Валюта EUR ● Посвідчення особи 5648322 ● Захист від копіювання Adobe DRM
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