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Book 2000

We Band of Angels

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Publisher
Atria
Language
English
Published
2000
  • Philippines
  • United States
  • Military - World War II
  • Military History - World War II
  • Women In The Military
  • Women's Studies - History
  • History
  • Prisoners of war

IN THE FALL of 1941, while the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy secretly stockpiled tons of materiel and readied regiments of troops to attack American and European bases in the Pacific, the officers of General Douglas MacArthur's Far East Command in the Philippines pampered themselves with the sweet pleasures of colonial life.