The Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor

by William B. Breuer

Book Overview

From the critically acclaimed author whom The Wall Street Journal called ""a first-class historian,"" here is a riveting account of one of the most spectacular rescue operations in history. On January 30, 1945, American troops staged a successful raid on Cabanatuan, a notorious Japanese POW camp where thousands of prisoners had been tortured and died. Based on interviews with the heroes who survived the raid, this book brings to life in electrifying...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471037427
• ISBN13: 9780471037422
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Trade Paper Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Real life action story

This is the true story of the raid to free over 500 US POWs from the Japanese captured on Battan. It follows the 5 day mission of the 6th Rangers as they penetrate 30 miles behind enemy lines to effect the rescue. Great compaion peice to the "Ghost Soldiers" and the "Great Raid".

Wonderful

This book was fantastic. There isn't a better told story of rescue and heroism. I couldn't put it down.

More Thrilling Than a Thriller

This is the sort of exciting, astonishing history that must make novelists despair: How can fiction compete with reality? If a fiction writer dared to put into a novel the heroics, impossible feats and strange coincidences that are recounted here it would be condemned as far-fetched. But these events -- the Bataan Death March and the US Army Ranger raid on the Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan on Luzon near the end of WWII -- really happened! A stirring history; a thrilling read. (Much, much better than Side's "Ghost Soldiers" with its lame justifications of the Japanese army's atrocities.)

Very emotional and moving

I read The Great Raid and found it very moving. It's hard to imagine the atrocities that occurred during that time period. I just recently saw the movie The Great Raid and it made everything come alive. Seeing how the prisoners of war were treated horrified me. It's amazing what the human body can endure and still survive.

Couldn't put it down

I read the original hardback before it was out of print and now that it is in paperback I will be reading it again. One of the most gripping stories in history, I was spellbound and found it difficult to put the book down. Excellent storytelling.