Undefeated : America’s heroic fight for Bataan and Corregidor / Bill Sloan.
Title
Undefeated : America’s heroic fight for Bataan and Corregidor / Bill Sloan.
Subject
Bataan, Battle of, Philippines, 1942.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Philippines--Corregidor Island.
Bataan (Philippines: Province)--History, Military.
Corregidor Island (Philippines)--History, Military.
Description
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 death march, Camp O’Donnell, hell ships and final liberation.
There is virtually nothing on the Filipino side of the campaign (except generally negative appraisals of the Philippine Army), and nothing new on the Japanese front. (While the author interviewed several veterans, they were all Americans). The Visayas and Mindanao are not given much mention either, so that the title does sum up what the book is about, giving short shrift to the Filipinos who were the majority on Bataan. The author, a popular American military historian, has written other books about World War II, but this is his first venture into the Asia-Pacific front.
There is virtually nothing on the Filipino side of the campaign (except generally negative appraisals of the Philippine Army), and nothing new on the Japanese front. (While the author interviewed several veterans, they were all Americans). The Visayas and Mindanao are not given much mention either, so that the title does sum up what the book is about, giving short shrift to the Filipinos who were the majority on Bataan. The author, a popular American military historian, has written other books about World War II, but this is his first venture into the Asia-Pacific front.
Creator
Sloan, Bill, 1935-
Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.
Date
2012
Format
25 x 17 cm.
Language
English
Type
Hardbound
Identifier
9781439199640
Call Number
D 767.4 S58 2012
Accession Number
16651
Pagination
401 p., [16] p. of plates
Illustration
ill., map
Notes
Summary: An epic story of exceptional valor, and based on exclusive interviews with more than thirty survivors, "Undefeated" tells in gripping prose how outnumbered and outgunned American soldiers and airmen fought against invading Japanese forces in the Philippines at the beginning of World War II and then continued to resist through three harrowing years as POWs.
Contents: A $36-a-month paradise -- Paradise lost -- A black-and-blue Christmas -- The last bridge to nowhere -- Victory, retreat, and a final charge -- Abandoning the battling bastards -- Chaos on a collapsing front -- Through one hell to another -- The rock-’a shining example’ -- O’Donnell and other horrors -- Hell ships-voyages to oblivion -- Escape-the ultimate revenge -- A race between freedom and death -- New lives, old scars.
Contents: A $36-a-month paradise -- Paradise lost -- A black-and-blue Christmas -- The last bridge to nowhere -- Victory, retreat, and a final charge -- Abandoning the battling bastards -- Chaos on a collapsing front -- Through one hell to another -- The rock-’a shining example’ -- O’Donnell and other horrors -- Hell ships-voyages to oblivion -- Escape-the ultimate revenge -- A race between freedom and death -- New lives, old scars.
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Citation
Sloan, Bill, 1935- , “Undefeated : America’s heroic fight for Bataan and Corregidor / Bill Sloan.,” FHL-Roderick Hall, accessed December 12, 2025, https://fhl.omeka.net/items/show/931.