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Military history from the American point of view, written in gripping style. About half the book is on the defense of Bataan and Corregidor with little about the earlier ill-fated beach defenses. The remaining half deals with the POW experience: the…

Several stories in one: the first-person account of the author’s father, Staff Sgt Walter Finch, who was a member of the 59th Coast Artillery Regiment in Battery Way on Corregidor (which fired the last shot in the siege); the author reconstructs his…

Compilation of letters, vignettes, and prose and poetry by a granddaughter trying to reconstruct the life of a grandfather (William Harrington) she never knew, and the love story he and the author’s grandmother shared.

Bill Harrington was an…

Two stories presented side by side: the sufferings endured by American veterans of Bataan and Corregidor in the defense of the Philippines, 1941-1942 and subsequent prisoner of war experience, and the legal battle from the late 1990s to the early…

A comprehensive and definitive book on the ships (usually dirty and unkempt) used by the Japanese to transport white prisoners of war from conquered areas (including the Philippines) to Japan or other Japanese-controlled areas. Thousands of prisoners…

The story of Howard Irish, Jr., a 24-year old American soldier who was sent to the Philippines in September 1941, as one of the reinforcements for the Philippine defenses.

Irish was assigned to one of Corregidor’s gun batteries, and later…

Account of an American Bataan veteran and POW as recorded and written by his son. Abel Sr. was in the 192nd Tank Battalion which was sent to the Philippines just before war broke out. He talks briefly about his experiences in the defense of the…