General Wainwright's story : the account of four years of humiliating defeat, surrender, and captivity / by General Jonathan M. Wainwright, who paid the price of his country's unpreparedness ; edited by Robert Considine
Title
General Wainwright's story : the account of four years of humiliating defeat, surrender, and captivity / by General Jonathan M. Wainwright, who paid the price of his country's unpreparedness ; edited by Robert Considine
Subject
Bataan (Philippines: Province), Battle of, 1942.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Description
Personal account (assisted by a journalist) of the commanding general of the US Armed Forces in the Philippines (USAFIP) who surrendered Corregidor – and the Philippines – in May 1942.
Briefly recounts conditions in the Philippines just before the war, his being assigned by MacArthur first as North Luzon Force commander, then I Corps commander on Bataan, and finally commander of USAFIP after MacArthur evacuated to Australia. Details the operations of the forces under his command, and his decision to surrender. The remaining half of the book is a narration of Wainwright’s experiences a prisoner of war – briefly in Camp O’Donnell, then Taiwan and finally Manchuria, where he was liberated.
Written right after the war, the book was one of the first accounts of the defense of the Philippines from a general officer (but it also reportedly prevented the other generals from criticizing their commander). Wainwright was awarded the US Medal of Honor after the war.
Briefly recounts conditions in the Philippines just before the war, his being assigned by MacArthur first as North Luzon Force commander, then I Corps commander on Bataan, and finally commander of USAFIP after MacArthur evacuated to Australia. Details the operations of the forces under his command, and his decision to surrender. The remaining half of the book is a narration of Wainwright’s experiences a prisoner of war – briefly in Camp O’Donnell, then Taiwan and finally Manchuria, where he was liberated.
Written right after the war, the book was one of the first accounts of the defense of the Philippines from a general officer (but it also reportedly prevented the other generals from criticizing their commander). Wainwright was awarded the US Medal of Honor after the war.
Creator
Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1883-
Publisher
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1946.
Date
1946
Format
22 x 15 cm.
Type
Hardbound
Identifier
553240617
Call Number
D 767.4 W316 1946
Accession Number
15296
Pagination
[vi], 314 p.
Files
Collection
Citation
Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1883-, “General Wainwright's story : the account of four years of humiliating defeat, surrender, and captivity / by General Jonathan M. Wainwright, who paid the price of his country's unpreparedness ; edited by Robert Considine,” FHL-Roderick Hall, accessed December 12, 2025, https://fhl.omeka.net/items/show/599.