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　　The fighting that waged across the Philippines during World

War II ranks among the most vicious in the annals of war. Nearly

80,000 Americans and Filipinos were taken prisoner on Bataan, the

name of which is forever linked with the notorious "death march."

During the three years that Japan occupied the archipelago, 130,000

American and Filipinos were killed. Prisoners in Japanese prison

camps were 10 times as likely to die in captivity as soldiers held

by the Germans. When they returned to retake the islands, American

troops preferred not to take any prisoners at all. Gerald Astor

gives voice to the soldiers who participated in this gruesome

period of world military history. --This text refers to an out

of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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　　War's raw brutality pours over the pages of Astor's fourth

book (after Operation Iceberg) to chronicle WWII combat by drawing

heavily on firsthand accounts of American vets. In examining the

Philippines' fall to the Japanese in 1941-1942, the consequent

suffering of civilians and American POWs and the U.S. counterattack

in 1944, Astor criticizes Douglas MacArthur's judgment in the war's

initial stages, defends his decision to counterattack and considers

pointless his later extension of operations to the southern

islands. The author's more valuable work here, however, is his

reconstruction of the frontline experience. Astor's evocative

de*ions of jungle fighting highlight the fact that, even in an

age of technology, ground combat in the Pacific was primarily

man-to-man. American flexibility and initiative at all levels

eventually triumphed, but as Astor makes clear in this dramatic

narrative, the physical and emotional costs of defeating the

Japanese were as high as those incurred in the struggle against any

other foe in U.S. history. Maps, photographs.

　　Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers

to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.