Rock Force: The American Paratroopers Who Took Back Corregidor and Exacted Macarthur's Revenge on Japan
Kevin Maurer
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Rock Force: The American Paratroopers Who Took Back Corregidor and Exacted Macarthur's Revenge on Japan
Kevin Maurer
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
... excellent and detailed account of the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment’s daring airborne assault and conquest of Corregidor.
Journalist Maurer (coauthor, No Easy Day) delivers a straightforward account of the battle for the Philippines island of Corregidor during WWII.
Much of the narrative is a series of gripping, somewhat scattershot accounts of small-unit firefights, ambushes, suicidal attacks, heroic feats, and tragic deaths. The sole map of the entire island is little help in following the action, so readers should sit back and enjoy the fireworks. Although the mission was a combined airborne and amphibious assault, Maurer relies heavily on unpublished memoirs by three paratroopers, so the seaborne landing is only mentioned in passing; readers searching for a more balanced account will need to look elsewhere. Having worked hard and long gathering material, Maurer crafts a narrative that reads less like serious history and more like a novel, with invented dialogue and melodrama. Still, history buffs can be assured that he gets his facts right. Entertaining popular military history, mostly for fans of the genre..