“a good account...extensive personal testimony...dramatic narrative”—Global War Studies; “brings together all facets of the story.... Recommended”—Library Journal; “an interesting synthesis of the ground-level combat...indispensable”—Choice; “a good account of the battle, with excellent maps and some rarely-seen photographs, its primary contribution is the inclusion of extensive personal testimony from memoirs, and interviews. These individual accounts lend color and immediacy to an already dramatic narrative—Stanley L. Falk, Philippine war historian.