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03321aim a22004215a 4500 001 9A72B632D7AA11EAACEF483997128E48 003 SILO 005 20200806010102 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 160317s2015 xxunnn es z n eng d 020 $a 0062373854 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 $a 9780062373854 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 $a MWT11586970 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 082 04 $a 940.53/175991 $2 23 100 1 $a Henderson, Bruce B., $d 1946- $e author. 245 10 $a Rescue at Los BanÌos : $b the most daring prison camp raid of World War II $h [electronic resource]. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b HarperAudio, $c 2015. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 55 min.)) : $b digital. 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 $a Read by Brett Barry. 520 $a From the bestselling author of Hero Found comes the incredible true story of one of the greatest military rescues of all time, the 1945 World War II prison camp raid at Los Ba?os in the Philippines-a tale of daring, courage, and heroism that joins the ranks of Ghost Soldiers, Unbroken, and The Boys of Pointe du Hoc. In February 1945, as the U.S. 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 Ba?os 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 MacArthur assigned to the 11th Airborne Division a dangerous rescue mission deep behind enemy lines that became a deadly race against the clock. The Los Ba?os 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 Ba?os 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 Ba?os 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. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 610 20 $a Los BanÌos Internment Camp. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z Philippines. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Philippines $x Amphibious operations, American. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Philippines $x Aerial operations, American. 700 1 $a Barry, Brett, $e narrator. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11586970?utm_source=MARC $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/hpc_9780062373854_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20200806022054.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9A72B632D7AA11EAACEF483997128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search