The Devil’s Causeway. The True Story of America’s First Prisoners of War in the Philippines, and the Heroic Expedition Sent to Their Rescue.

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hardbound with dust-jacket, 417 pp with index, with many black and white illustrations.

An imprint of Globe Pequot Press. In 1899, a naval officer’s reckless grasp for glory triggered a real American Heart of Darkness- a rebel ambush, America’s first prisoners of war in the Philippines, their forced march through triple-canopy jungle and behind enemy lines, and one of the greatest rescue missions in US Army history. ISBN 978-0-7627-8029-7.