"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2001. Originally published in trade paperback by Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2002"--Title page verso

"On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese soldiers elsewhere in the Philippines made the stakes impossibly high and left little time to plan the complex operation"--Page 4 of cover