Race Against Death: The Greatest POW Rescue of World War II

" A thrilling account of the most daring American POW rescue mission of World War II.Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, America entered World War II, and a new theater of battle opened up in the Pacific. But US troops, along with thousands of Filipino soldiers who fought alongside them, were overtaken in the Philippines by a fiercely determined Japanese navy, and many Americans and Filipino fighters were killed or captured.These American and Filipino prisoners of war were forced to endure the most horrific conditions on the deadly trek known as the Bataan Death March. Then, the American servicemen who were held captive by the Japanese military in Cabanatuan Camp and others in the Philippines, faced beatings, starvation, and tropical diseases, and lived constantly under the threat of death.Unable to forget their comrades' fate and concerned that these POWs would be brutally murdered as the tides of war shifted in the Pacific, the US

ISBN:	9781338746167
Publisher:	Scholastic Focus
Imprint:	Scholastic Focus
Published date:	18 Apr 2023
DEWEY:	940.547252095991
DEWEY edition:	23/eng/20220406
Language:	English
Number of pages:	cm
Weight:	-1g
Height:	210mm
Width:	140mm

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