The Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor

This is the true story of the raid to free over 500 US POWs from the Japanese captured on Battan. It follows the 5 day mission of the 6th Rangers as they penetrate 30 miles behind enemy lines to effect the rescue. Great compaion peice to the "Ghost Soldiers" and the "Great Raid".

This book was fantastic. There isn't a better told story of rescue and heroism. I couldn't put it down.

This is the sort of exciting, astonishing history that must make novelists despair: How can fiction compete with reality? If a fiction writer dared to put into a novel the heroics, impossible feats and strange coincidences that are recounted here it would be condemned as far-fetched. But these events -- the Bataan Death March and the US Army Ranger raid on the Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan on Luzon near the end of WWII -- really happened! A stirring history; a thrilling read. (Much, much better than Side's "Ghost Soldiers" with its lame justifications of the Japanese army's atrocities.)

I read The Great Raid and found it very moving. It's hard to imagine the atrocities that occurred during that time period. I just recently saw the movie The Great Raid and it made everything come alive. Seeing how the prisoners of war were treated horrified me. It's amazing what the human body can endure and still survive.

I read the original hardback before it was out of print and now that it is in paperback I will be reading it again. One of the most gripping stories in history, I was spellbound and found it difficult to put the book down. Excellent storytelling.