Undefeated: America's Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor

by Bill Sloan

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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.

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A vivid, engrossing chronicle of the valiant but doomed defense of the Phillipines from Japanese invasion. There are also detailed accounts of horrific ordeals suffered by POWs and heroic escape attempts. Powerful and gripping.

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Bill Sloan worked for ten years as an investigative reporter and feature writer for the Dallas Times Herald, where he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of numerous books including Elvis, Hank and Me: Making Musical History on the Louisiana Hayride, Given up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island, and JFK: The Last show more Dissenting Witness. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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940.54History & geographyHistory of EuropeHistory of Europe1918-Military history of World War II
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D767.4 .S58History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaHistory (General)World War II (1939-1945)
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