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Chris Hulme spent a season with the Kingston Arrows - watching every game, talking to them about their lives on the inside and out and supporting them in their attempt to win the league for the first time in ten years of trying. 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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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53342151868689,"sku":"NGR9781036198930","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781036198930.jpg?v=1774480993"},{"product_id":"battlefields-of-the-south-pacific-book-chris-hulme-9781036185046","title":"Battlefields of the South Pacific","description":"In late summer 1942, the Pacific War balanced on a knife’s edge. Japan’s sprawling empire seemed unassailable, yet on a chain of remote islands south of the equator, the tide began to turn.  The US Marines struck first at Guadalcanal in the Solomons, where the fate of the Pacific cantered on a single prize: the Japanese airbase at what became known as Henderson Field. Control of this airstrip meant control of the southwest Pacific – and the lifeline to Australia.  For six savage months the battle raged. Marines and Army units fought in jungles, ravines, crocodile-haunted rivers, and across kunai-grass hills, quickly learning that the Japanese would fight to the death rather than surrender.  As American troops clung to Henderson Field, the struggle shifted north to New Guinea, where the land itself was an enemy. Along the jagged ridges of the Owen Stanley Mountains, Australian soldiers made their stand on the mud-choked Kokoda Trail, the only passable route across the range.  Beyond loomed Rabaul – Japan’s South Pacific fortress and the heart of its power in the Solomons. Its tunnels and batteries formed a bristling citadel, garrisoned with over 100,000 military personnel. Too strong to storm, Rabaul instead became the target of unrelenting American air raids.  Packed with photographs, the author retraces the decisive campaigns around Guadalcanal, New Guinea, and Rabaul, battles that shaped the course of the war in the South Pacific. These were contests fought at the far edge of supply lines and human endurance. The author walks jungle trails, dives among wrecks, and explores ruined command posts where echoes of fire and fury still linger. The landscapes themselves bear the scars of the moment when the Allies seized the initiative – when the thunder of war rolled northward, unstoppable, until it crashed upon the shores of Imperial Japan.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53684201292049,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53684201324817,"sku":"NGR9781036185046","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781036185046.jpg?v=1782844921"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-chris-hulme.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}