The Long March Home ¿ A World War Ii Novel Of The Pacific Av Marcus Brotherton, Tosca Lee

<b> "[A] tour de force."--</b><b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b><b> starred review<br/><br/>"A great read."--</b><b><i>Library Journal</i></b><b> starred review<br/><br/>"A must-read literary triumph."--</b><b><i>Booklist</i></b><b> starred review<br/><br/>***<br/></b><br/>Jimmy Propfield joined the army for two reasons: to get out of Mobile, Alabama, with his best friends Hank and Billy and to forget his high school sweetheart, Claire. <br/><br/>Life in the Philippines seems like paradise--until the morning of December 8, 1941, when news comes from Manila: Imperial Japan has bombed Pearl Harbor. Within hours, the teenage friends are plunged into war as enemy warplanes attack Luzon, beginning a battle for control of the Pacific Theater that will culminate with a last stand on the Bataan Peninsula and end with the largest surrender of American troops in history. <br/><br/>What follows will become known as one of the worst atrocities in modern warfare: