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Race against Death: The Greatest POW Rescue of World War II (True Stories in Focus series)
Deborah Hopkinson
Ages: 12+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Scholastic Focus/Scholastic
ISBN: 978-1-33874-616-7
Keywords: War, Japan, war prisoners, Philippines
Brief bios of brave Americans and Filipinos who suffered starvation, disease, and brutality defending the Philippines against the Japanese following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Black-and-white archival photographs. Back matter.