Race against Death: The Greatest POW Rescue of World War II (True Stories in Focus series)

This nonfiction account traces American and Filipino soldiers and medical personnel from the attack on Pearl Harbor through the Bataan Death March and imprisonment in camps in the Philippines. Drawing chiefly on firsthand testimony, it follows events in chronological order and returns to the same voices across chapters. Photographs, maps, and drawings by soldiers and prisoners accompany the narrative. The book also addresses the violence of the Japanese occupation and recounts the January 1945 rescue, including the roles of Filipino resistance fighters and local farmers.