Product Description: Four cassettes, 6 hrs.Read by James NaughtonIn January 1945, 121 hand-selected troops fom the elite U&.S Army Sixth Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: Attempt to rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent over three years in a surreally hellish camp, near the city of Cabantuan, thirty miles distant...read more

Chronicles the daring mission of the elite U.S. Army Sixth Ranger Battalion to slip behind enemy lines in the Phillipines and rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent over three years in a hellish, Japanese-run camp near Cabanatuan.

Provides an in-depth account of the fall of the Philippines during World War II to the Japanese, the harsh treatment of American and Filipino POWs, and the 1945 raid by a band of American Rangers and Filipino Scouts on a Japanese POW camp to liberated incarcerated American soldiers. Book available. (A Miramax Film, directed by John Dahl, releasing December 2005, starring Benjamin Bratt & Joseph Fiennes) (Military History)

Provides an in-depth account of the fall of the Philippines during World War II to the Japanese, the harsh treatment of American and Filipino POWs, and the 1945 raid by a band of American Rangers and Filipino Scouts on a Japanese POW camp to liberate incarcerated American soldiers. Book available. (A Miramax Film, directed by John Dahl, releasing December 2005, starring Benjamin Bratt & Joseph Fiennes) (Military History)

Provides an in-depth account of the fall of the Philippines during World War II to the Japanese, the harsh treatment of American and Filipino POWs, and the 1945 raid by a band of American Rangers and Filipino Scouts on a Japanese POW camp to liberated incarcerated American soldiers. Book available. (A Miramax Film, directed by John Dahl, releasing December 2005, starring Benjamin Bratt & Joseph Fiennes) (Military History)

Gives an account of the fall of the Philippines during World War II to the Japanese, and the harsh treatment of American and Filipino POWs (view table of contents)