Corregidor: Siege and Liberation, 1941-1945

Singapore and Hong Kong had fallen to the forces of Imperial Japan, Thailand and Burma had been invaded and islands across the pacific captured. But one place, one tiny island fortress in the Philippines, garrisoned by a few thousand hungry and exhausted men, refused to be beaten. That island fortress was Corregidor, which guarded the entrance to Manila Bay and controlled all seaborne access to Manila Harbour. At a time when every news bulletin was one of Japanese success, Corregidor shone ...