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Author:

Sloan, Bill, 1935-

Title:

Undefeated : America's heroic fight for Bataan and Corregidor / Bill Sloan.

Edition:

1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

401 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Bataan, Battle of, Philippines, 1942.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Corregidor Island.--Corregidor Island.
Corregidor Island (Philippines)--History, Military.
Bataan (Philippines : Province)--History, Military.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

A $36-a-month paradise -- 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.

Summary:

An epic story of exceptional valor, and based on exclusive interviews with more than thirty survivors, "Undefeated" tells in gripping prose how outnumbered and outgunned American soldiers and airmen fought against invading Japanese forces in the Philippines at the beginning of World War II and then continued to resist through three harrowing years as POWs.

ISBN:

1439199647
9781439199640

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FMPC224 -- Guttenberg Public Library (Guttenberg)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

TVPD862 -- Louise & Lucile Hink -Tama Public Library (Tama)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)