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Donald J. Young

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Donald J. Young is a WWII Army infantry veteran, poet, Ivy League-educated, and former English professor.  Donald J. Young is the author of The Battle for Snow Mountain, The Battle of Bataan: A Complete History, Fall of the Philippines: The Desperate Struggle Against the Japanese Invasion, 1941-1942, Final Hours in the Pacific: The Allied Surrenders of Wake Island, Bataan, Corregidor, Hong Kong and Singapore, First 24 Hours of War in the Pacific, December 1941: America's First 25 Days at War and Wartime Palos Verdes.

According to the book description of The Battle for Snow Mountain, it "is a comic novel which begins with a surreal picture of The Snow Mountains, during the German WWII breakthrough into the Ardennes in the winter of 44. Richard thinks their first days at the front make sense. Timmons believes their actions are ridiculous. Because their inept, absurd Captain takes them up the wrong road, the two GIs are captured and sent to a POW camp. During an American air raid, the soldiers escape from the camp to the Russian zone, and then end up in Paris. After their misadventures, Timmons still thinks their war effort made no sense, whereas Richard believes their actions were necessary and meaningful."

According to the book description of The Battle of Bataan: A Complete History, "Fought with obsolete and discarded equipment by an army made up of mostly untrained Filipinos, the Battle of Bataan has truly become the "forgotten battle" of World War II despite the fact that it represents the single largest surrender in American and Filipino military history. This book provides a complete history of the battle by also looking at the events which led up to the fall of Bataan. It begins with an overview of the Philippine, American, and Japanese forces which fought on Bataan, followed by chapters looking at the military buildup, the counterattack in the II Corps and the withdrawal from Abucay, the Japanese invasion, the Battle for the Points, the Battle of the Pockets, and, finally, the surrender and death march. The book contains dozens of period and modern photographs and several maps."

According to the book description of Fall of the Philippines: The Desperate Struggle Against the Japanese Invasion, 1941-1942, "World War II began for the United States with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, followed by the invasion of the Philippine Islands the next day. Unlike the rapid capture of Hong Kong, Wake Island and Singapore, the war in the Philippines lasted for seven months before the unprepared American and Filipino forces--cut off from supplies and fighting with obsolete equipment and without air or naval support--were overwhelmed. Drawing on diaries and personal accounts, this book chronicles forgotten actions in the fall of the Philippines through the recollections of American servicemen. The author covers the 90 day perseverance of Bataan's tiny air force, the first PT boat raid of the war, the last U.S. horse cavalry charge in history, a lone U.S. submarine's attack on a Japanese invasion fleet, the deliberate bombing of Bataan's main field hospital by the Japanese, the difficult and uneasy surrender of Bataan, Corregidor's doomed resistance and the surrender of the Southern Islands of the archipelago."

According to the book description of Final Hours in the Pacific: The Allied Surrenders of Wake Island, Bataan, Corregidor, Hong Kong and Singapore, "From December 7, 1941, until the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the war with Japan was a losing one. It was to be the darkest period of the almost four-year war. During those days, no times were more trying than the final hours for the men trapped on Wake Island, Bataan, Corregidor, Hong Kong and Singapore. This book, outlining the bitter end to their ordeals, covers the crucial days and final hours that led to their surrender, a capitulation that would shock the free world."

According to the book description of First 24 Hours of War in the Pacific, "The first the world knew of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was at 8:00a.m., Hawaiian time, when the stunning message "AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NO DRILL" was hurriedly flashed from Admiral Kimmel's headquarters at Pearl Harbor. Twenty-four hours and two minutes later, at 1:32p.m., Washington time, the Congress of the United States officially declared war on the Empire of Japan."

According to the book description of Wartime Palos Verdes, "Along with the normal effects on everyday life that WWII presented to most Americans, Palos Verdes, because of its remoteness and its strategic military location, found itself in a unique situation when the war broke out on Dec. 7, 1941."

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