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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 Baños 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 Baños 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 Baños 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 Baños prison raid. It is the text

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Author

Los Baños Internment Camp.;Henderson, Bruce B

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers; William Morrow Paperbacks

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062325068

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Military History

Rating

4.14 / 5 (265 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13