Undefeated: America's Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor
This epic story recounts the exceptional valor and endurance of American troops that battled Japanese forces in the Philippines during World War II.

Bill Sloan, “a master of the combat narrative” (Dallas Morning News), tells the story of the outnumbered American soldiers and airmen who stood against invading Japanese forces in the Philippines at the beginning of World War II, and continued to resist through three harrowing years as POWs. For four months they fought toe to toe against overwhelming enemy numbers—and forced the Japanese to pay a heavy cost in blood. After the surrender came the infamous Bataan Death March, where up to eighteen thousand American and Filipino prisoners died as they marched sixty-five miles under the most hellish conditions imaginable. Interwoven throughout this gripping narrative are the harrowing personal experiences of dozens of American soldiers, airmen, and Marines, based on exclusive interviews with more than thirty survivors. Undefeated chronicles one of the great sagas of World War II—and celebrates a resounding triumph of the human spirit.
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Undefeated: America's Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor
This epic story recounts the exceptional valor and endurance of American troops that battled Japanese forces in the Philippines during World War II.

Bill Sloan, “a master of the combat narrative” (Dallas Morning News), tells the story of the outnumbered American soldiers and airmen who stood against invading Japanese forces in the Philippines at the beginning of World War II, and continued to resist through three harrowing years as POWs. For four months they fought toe to toe against overwhelming enemy numbers—and forced the Japanese to pay a heavy cost in blood. After the surrender came the infamous Bataan Death March, where up to eighteen thousand American and Filipino prisoners died as they marched sixty-five miles under the most hellish conditions imaginable. Interwoven throughout this gripping narrative are the harrowing personal experiences of dozens of American soldiers, airmen, and Marines, based on exclusive interviews with more than thirty survivors. Undefeated chronicles one of the great sagas of World War II—and celebrates a resounding triumph of the human spirit.
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Undefeated: America's Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor

Undefeated: America's Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor

by Bill Sloan
Undefeated: America's Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor

Undefeated: America's Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor

by Bill Sloan

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This epic story recounts the exceptional valor and endurance of American troops that battled Japanese forces in the Philippines during World War II.

Bill Sloan, “a master of the combat narrative” (Dallas Morning News), tells the story of the outnumbered American soldiers and airmen who stood against invading Japanese forces in the Philippines at the beginning of World War II, and continued to resist through three harrowing years as POWs. For four months they fought toe to toe against overwhelming enemy numbers—and forced the Japanese to pay a heavy cost in blood. After the surrender came the infamous Bataan Death March, where up to eighteen thousand American and Filipino prisoners died as they marched sixty-five miles under the most hellish conditions imaginable. Interwoven throughout this gripping narrative are the harrowing personal experiences of dozens of American soldiers, airmen, and Marines, based on exclusive interviews with more than thirty survivors. Undefeated chronicles one of the great sagas of World War II—and celebrates a resounding triumph of the human spirit.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781439199657
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 06/18/2013
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 401
Sales rank: 538,217
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Bill Sloan is a respected military historian and author of more than a dozen books, including Brotherhood of Heroes: The Ultimate Battle. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

Table of Contents

1 A $36-a-Month Paradise 1

2 Paradise Lost 24

3 A Black-and-Blue Christmas 49

4 The Last Bridge to Nowhere 75

5 Victory, Retreat, and a Final Charge 100

6 Abandoning the Battling Bastards 125

7 Chaos on a Collapsing Front 149

8 Through One Hell to Another 175

9 The Rock—"A Shining Example" 201

10 O'Donnell and Other Horrors 229

11 Hell Ships—Voyages to Oblivion 258

12 Escape—The Ultimate Revenge 285

13 A Race Between Freedom and Death 312

14 New Lives, Old Scars 338

Sources and Notes 365

Bibliography 377

Acknowledgments 383

Index 385

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"Sloan demonstrates that if captivity is a state of being, defeat is only a state of mind." —-Publishers Weekly

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