| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .J3 H46 2015 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
17919 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9780062325068 (hardbound)
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 805 .J3
- Item number - H46 2015
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Henderson, Bruce
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Rescue at Los Baños
- Remainder of title - the most daring prison camp raid of World War II
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Bruce Henderson
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| Edition Statement |
- Edition statement - First edition
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - New York, N.Y.
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Harper Collins Publishers,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2015
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - [ix], 366 pages
- Other physical details - ill.,
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| Content Type |
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| Media Type |
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| Carrier Type |
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
- Bibliography, etc - With bibliography, index and appendix
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - The fall of Manila -- Prisoners of the Japanese -- Los Baños internment camp -- Sky soldiers -- "You'll be eating dirt" -- Return to the Philippines -- Freedom week -- Under the cover of darkness -- The killings -- "Do it right, Joe" -- The escapes -- The Los Baños force -- "Rescue must come soon!" -- "The world will be watching" -- The raid -- Rescue -- "God was with us" -- Epilogue: the fate of Sadaaki Konishi -- Dramatis Personae -- Sources -- Appendix: The Camp Roster -- Bibliography -- Index
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "Rescue at Los Baños tells the mesmerizing survival story of more than two thousand prisoners of war held in the Philippines by the Japanese during World War II--and the elite 11th Airborne Division's remarkable, heart-pounding mission to rescue them from deep inside enemy territory"
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Los Baños Internment Camp.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Campaigns
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- General subdivision - Amphibious operations, American.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- General subdivision - Aerial operations, American.
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