Corregidor : The American Alamo of World War II - Eric Morris

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Corregidor

The American Alamo of World War II

By: Eric Morris

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Paperback | 5 September 2000

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Told in the voices of the soldiers, doctors, and nurses who were the untested but valiant defenders of Corregidor, the tiny island fortress of Generals Macarthur and Wainwright; Corregidor is the remarkable history of forty American and Filipino survivors. Before Pearl Harbor, American servicemen in the Philippines led a life of colonial ease. But from December 1941 to May 1942, defeated and humiliated by the Japanese and deceived by Washington, they fought and dies to buy America some desperately needed time to regroup and respond to the Japanese onslaught in the Pacific.

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Corregidor vividly conveys the circumstances of men fighting hunger, dystentery, and malaria, as well as the rapidly encroaching Japanese; the effects of massive and sustained bombardment upon civilians and troops penned within the confines of the island and tunnels of Corregidor; and the wide variations of behavior among units and individuals as it became apparent that, for all the rhetoric issuing from Washington, no relieving force was going to arrive.--Times Literary Supplement

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Non-Fiction History General & World History Regional & National History European History Warfare & Defence War & Defence Operations Battles & Campaigns Military History Second World War

"Cast List"	p. xi
Prologue	p. 1
A Soldier's Paradise	p. 3
Call to Arms	p. 19
Rumors of War	p. 47
Day of Infamy
"Bandits Over Clark"	p. 73
War Comes to Manila	p. 93
The Battle of Manila	p. 107
Retreat	p. 159
The Battle of Bataan
Prelude	p. 231
The Battle of the Abucay Hacienda	p. 252
The Battle of the Points	p. 280
The Battle of the Pockets	p. 313
The Siege: "The Battling Bastards of Bataan"	p. 333
The Fall of Bataan	p. 375
Corregidor
The Death March	p. 409
"As Goes Bataan So Goes Corregidor"	p. 426
Epilogue: One Dollar a Day	p. 475
Selected Bibliography	p. 511
Index	p. 513
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The American Alamo of World War II

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