{"product_id":"9780786151554","title":"The Great Raid: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe full story of the daring mission that inspired \u003ci\u003eGhost Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore General Douglas MacArthur could fulfill his stirring promise of “I shall return” and retake the Philippines from Japanese control, a remarkable rescue mission would have to take place. Captured American soldiers had been held at the notorious Cabanatuan prison camp for more than thirty-three months. Emaciated and ill from brutal mistreatment, a mere 511 POWs remained from the 25,000-strong fighting force that MacArthur had been ordered to abandon on February 23, 1942. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the morning of January 28, 1945, a small band of Army Rangers set out on an audacious and daring rescue effort: to penetrate thirty miles into Japanese controlled territory, storm the camp, and escape with the POWs, carrying them if necessary. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam B. Breuer recounts in searing, meticulous detail, based largely on interviews with survivors—the hellish battles of Bataan and Corregidor, the horrors of the Bataan Death March, and the harrowing efforts of guerilla fighters. A classic of its kind, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Raid\u003c\/i\u003e tells the full story of this episode with a breadth and depth of detail that goes far beyond other accounts, including Hampton Sides’s best-selling \u003ci\u003eGhost Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Great Raid \u003c\/i\u003eis a thrilling true-life adventure story and an inspiring testament to American heroism and grit. And, as retired four-star general Barry McCaffrey asserts in his introduction, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Raid \u003c\/i\u003eis an “important book for our current military and political leaders to read.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47094165995760,"sku":"9780786151554","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780786151554_p0.jpg?v=1763663119","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780786151554","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}