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On January 30, 1945, in the heart of Japanese-held Luzon, the night suddenly exploded with gunfire around a heavily guarded Japanese POW camp. For the prisoners inside - men who had scraped, crawled, and struggled for survival itself - the sounds could mean only one thing: that after years of suffering, their captors were now executing them. But then the POWs began to hear voices crying out in English. Their hour of redemption had come at last.
This classic work, credited as a major source for the bestselling Ghost Soldiers, is a gripping narrative chronicle of the U. S. Army Ranger-led raid on the Cabanatuan POW camp in World War II, in which over 500 ragged POWs were liberated and half-led, half-carried to U.S. lines. From the horrors of Bataan to the strategies that shaped the Allied counterattack on Japan in the Philippines, here are unforgettable portraits of generals and survivors, of elite U.S. Alamo Scouts and remarkable Filipino guerrilla fighters. Definitive, epic, and vivid, Hour of Redemption is a powerful testament to human courage - and the will to survive in the face of hell itself.
