The Great Raid
Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor

I was browsing Netflix and saw a movie called The Great Raid starring James Franco, Benjamin Bratt, and others. I saw what the movie was about and thought "This should be a great movie!" It wasn't. The story, however, was. I ran to the library and listened to The Great Raid. It wasn't the best writin......more

The Great Raid, based on books by William Breuer and Hampton Sides This film has a promising tagline and a few superlatives for the real story on which the screenplay is based- “the most daring rescue mission of our time”, after the worst defeat in the history of American interventions and a cast wit......more

One of my great grandfather's was rescued in the raid on Cabanatuan. I never got the chance to meet him, but through this book I learned a lot about the character of the men who fought to save him and hundreds of other mistreated, starved, abused POWs. From the Alamo Scouts to the Army Rangers to th......more

Tells an interesting story and covers historic events. However, feels like it was written by the propaganda department during the war. The Japanese are depicted as cruel, sadistic and as paper thin characters of evil. Americans are all brave, smart and heroic. I’m sure the incidents were horrible and......more

This is the kind of story that I really enjoy reading about- bold, audacious operations far behind enemy lines. And the Cabanatuan raid is arguably the mother of them all, ably told here by William Breuer. It begins with the story of the fall of Corregidor and Bataan, MacArthur's escape to Australia......more