Corregidor
The American Alamo of World War II
1st Edition
Published on 5. September 2000
560 pages
978-1-4616-6092-7 (ISBN)
Description
Told in the voices of the soldiers, doctors, and nurses who were the untested but valiant defenders of Corregidor, the tiny island fortress of Generals Macarthur and Wainwright; Corregidor is the remarkable history of forty American and Filipino survivors. Before Pearl Harbor, American servicemen in the Philippines led a life of colonial ease. But from December 1941 to May 1942, defeated and humiliated by the Japanese and deceived by Washington, they fought and dies to buy America some desperately needed time to regroup and respond to the Japanese onslaught in the Pacific.
Reviews / Votes
Morris's work is unusual. It has freshness and intimacy that other books on the subject lack....Eminently readable. * Library Journal * Corregidor vividly conveys the circumstances of men fighting hunger, dystentery, and malaria, as well as the rapidly encroaching Japanese; the effects of massive and sustained bombardment upon civilians and troops penned within the confines of the island and tunnels of Corregidor; and the wide variations of behavior among units and individuals as it became apparent that, for all the rhetoric issuing from Washington, no relieving force was going to arrive. * Times Literary Supplement *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Globe Pequot Press
File size
3,38 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4616-6092-7 (9781461660927)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
11/2000
Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.
€20.60
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Person
By Eric Morris
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Cast List
- Prologue
- Chapter I: A Soldier's Paradise
- Chapter II: Call to Arms
- Chapter III: Rumors of War
- Chapter IV: Day of Infamy
- 1. "Bandits Over Clark
- 2. War Comes to Manila
- Chapter V: The Battle of Manila
- Chapter VI: Retreat
- Chapter VII: The Battle of Bataan
- 1. Prelude
- 2. The Battle of the Abucay Hacienda
- 3. The Battle of the Points
- 4. The Battle of the Pockets
- Chapter VIII: The Siege: "The Battling Bastards of Bataan
- Chapter IX: The Fall of Bataan
- Chapter X: Corregidor
- 1. The Death March
- 2 . "As Goes Bataan So Goes Corregidor
- Epilogue One Dollar a Day
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
