A must-read for anyone who loves war story romances and can truly appreciate the value of a family’s undying love for one another in the face of insurmountable odds.
We Shall Return and Survive
They were the Battling Bastards of Bataan. The forgotten soldiers of WWII. They served under General Douglas MacArthur, a military genius with an enormous ego. Historians have paid little attention to the men who escaped the Death March of Bataan and continued to fight up until MacArthur returned to liberate the Philippines. The impact of what happened to these young men in the far reaches of the Pacific, is not told in a single history book.
Edward Higginbotham Jr. shares the true story of his father, Edward Higginbotham Sr., a WWII Army Private who escaped the Death March of Bataan and fought to survive in the jungles of Zambales for 3 years. Edward Jr. describes the impact it all had on the Higginbotham family decades after the war. He shares some heartfelt stories about how the family originated, evolved, loved, persevered and survived, through the most difficult times.
In the process, he discovers how connected he and his father really were, with the nuclear bomb that finally ended WWII, leaving behind a legacy of nuclear waste. He also discovers what matters the most.
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