| Personal Name |
Horn, Jonathan, 1982- author.
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| Title Statement |
The fate of the generals : MacArthur, Wainwright, and the epic battle for the Philippines / Jonathan Horn.
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| Varying Form of Title |
MacArthur, Wainwright, and the epic battle for the Philippines
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| Edition Statement |
First Scribner hardcover edition
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Scribner, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
xi, 427 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-405) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Prologue: Paths to honor -- Fatherland -- The call of history -- First steps to a last stand -- Tunnel view -- Battling bastards -- The trough -- A dreadful step -- Down under -- Honor of another kind -- Bypass -- Solitaire -- The return -- The other return -- Epilogue: When men have to die.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"For the doomed stand American forces made in the Philippines at the start of World War II, two generals received their country's highest military award, the Medal of Honor. One was the charismatic and controversial Douglas MacArthur, whose orders forced him to leave his soldiers on the islands to starvation and surrender but whose vow to return echoed around the globe. The other was the gritty Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, who became a hero to the troops whose fate he insisted on sharing even when it meant becoming the highest-ranking American prisoner of the Japanese. In The Fate of the Generals, bestselling author Jonathan Horn brings together the story of two men who won the same medal but found honor on very different paths. MacArthur's journey would require a daring escape with his wife and young child to Australia and then years of fighting over the thousands of miles needed to make it back to the Philippines, where he would fulfill his famous vow only to see the city he called home burn. Wainwright's journey would take him from the Philippines to Taiwan and Manchuria as his captors tortured him in prisons and left him to wonder whether his countrymen would ever understand the choice he had made to surrender for the sake of his men. A story of war made personal based on meticulous research into letters and diaries including boxes of previously unexplored papers, The Fate of the Generals is a vivid account that raises timely questions about how we define honor and how we choose our heroes, and is destined to become a classic of World War II history"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1883-1953.
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| Subject |
United States. Army Biography. Officers
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| Subject |
Allied Forces. South West Pacific Area.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Generals Biography. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World War, 1939-1945 United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Philippines.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States History, Military 20th century.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies. lcgft
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