Corregidor

The American Alamo of World War II

By (author) Eric Morris

Paperback - £14.99

Publication date:

05 November 2000

Length of book:

560 pages

Publisher

Cooper Square Press

ISBN-13: 9780815410850

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.
Morris's work is unusual. It has freshness and intimacy that other books on the subject lack....Eminently readable.