Hampton Sides
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
This book is a tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: march thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent three years in a surreally hellish camp near the city of Cabanatuan. The prisoners included the last survivors of...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
During World War II, 121 Marines slip behind enemy lines in the Philippines to rescue 513 POWs, including the last survivors of the Bataan Death March, in an epic show of bravery for both groups.