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The Bataan Death March to MacArthur’s Return: Revisiting the Battlefields of the Pacific War in the Philippines

The Bataan Death March to MacArthur’s Return: Revisiting the Battlefields of the Pacific War in the Philippines


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Over several years, author Chris Hulme embarked on a personal travel odyssey across the battlefields of the Second World War in the Pacific. In The Bataan Death March to MacArthur's Return, he journeys through the Philippines – from the rain-swept streets of Manila to the wreck-strewn waters of Leyte Gulf – blending gripping history with personal exploration. The author begins by walking in the footsteps of those who endured the harrowing three-month siege of Bataan, where American and Filipino forces, cut off from supplies and reinforcements, made their desperate last stand against overwhelming Japanese troops. That valiant struggle culminated in the largest surrender of U.S. Army forces in history and the infamous Bataan Death March, marked today by 136 white concrete obelisks along the 65-mile route of suffering. Taking a boat across Manila Bay, Hulme explores the island fortress of Corregidor, where General Jonathan Wainwright's forces held out for another month after Bataan's fall. Hulme navigates the haunting ruins of burned-out barracks and massive gun batteries, descending into the Malinta Tunnel complex where MacArthur once commanded the defence before a nighttime evacuation in a PT boat. The narrative follows MacArthur's promise to return, landing with him on the beaches of Leyte in 1944. Hulme links the fury of that campaign with the elemental power of the Pacific itself, where typhoons battered fleets and civilians alike, and reflects on new deep-ocean discoveries of warships resting more than 6,000 meters below the surface. The story culminates in Manila, 1945, when a month-long inferno claimed 100,000 civilian lives and reduced the 'Pearl of the Orient' to burning rubble. From the restored MacArthur Suite at the Manila Hotel to the dungeons of Fort Santiago, Hulme confronts a legacy of atrocity, endurance and defiance. The Bataan Death March to MacArthur's Return transforms battlefields into living landscapes where past and present converge, offering a haunting meditation on courage, loss, and the human capacity to rebuild – brought vividly to life with evocative photographs and maps. AUTHOR: Inspired by a lifelong fascination with the Pacific War, Chris Hulme has travelled extensively across the region, exploring landscapes, shipwrecks, and communities still marked by conflict. Blending the immediacy of first-hand exploration with vivid historical storytelling, his work captures both the drama of struggles that shaped the fate of empires and the resilience of the people and places where the echoes of war endure. His highly acclaimed previous non-fiction book, Manslaughter United, chronicled a year with a prison football team of inmates serving life sentences.

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Inspired by a lifelong fascination with the Pacific War, CHRIS HULME has travelled extensively across the region, exploring landscapes, shipwrecks, and communities still marked by conflict. Blending the immediacy of first-hand exploration with vivid historical storytelling, his work captures both the drama of struggles that shaped the fate of empires and the resilience of the people and places where the echoes of war endure. His highly acclaimed previous non-fiction book, Manslaughter United, chronicled a year with a prison football team of inmates serving life sentences.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781036198930
  • Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1036198936
  • Publisher Date: 30 Aug 2026
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Revisiting the Battlefields of the Pacific War in the Philippines


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