Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War

by John D. Lukacs

Book Overview

One of the greatest Pacific war stories never told.

On April 4, 1943, ten American prisoners of war and two Filipino convicts--nicknamed the "Davao Dozen"--executed a daring escape from one of Japan's most notorious prison camps. Called the greatest story of the war in the Pacific by the War Department in 1944, the full account has never been told--until now. A product of years of in-depth research, John D. Lukacs's gripping description...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451234103
• ISBN13: 9780451234100
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher