Rescue at Los Baños: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II

Rescue at Los Banos tells the mesmerizing survival story of more than 2,000 civilian prisoners held in the Philippines by the Japanese during World War II–and the elite 11th Airborne Division's remarkable, heart-pounding mission to rescue them from deep inside enemy territory.

As the U.S. victory in the Pacific drew near, desperate Japanese soldiers guarding these prisoners—most of them Americans—at Los Baños Internment Camp became increasingly sadistic and began starving, beating, and killi...