Rescue at Los Baños

From the New York Times –bestselling author of Sons and Soldiers comes the incredible true story of one of the greatest military rescues of all time. In February 1945, as the US victory in the Pacific drew nearer, the Japanese army grew desperate, and its soldiers guarding U.S. and Allied POWs more sadistic. Starved, shot and beaten, many of the 2,146 prisoners of the Los Baños prison camp in the Philippines—most of them American men, women and children—would not survive much longer unless rescu