The Long March Home

"A tour de force."-- Publishers Weekly starred review "A great read."-- Library Journal starred review "A must-read literary triumph."-- Booklist starred review Jimmy Propfield joined the army for two reasons: to get out of Mobile, Alabama, with his best friends Hank and Billy and to forget his high school sweetheart, Claire. Life in the Philippines seems like paradise--until the morning of December 8, 1941, when news comes from Manila: Imperial Japan has bombed Pearl Harbor. Within hours, the t