Holding the Door Open: The Battles Towards Bataan

Seth Paridon and Jon Parshall reconstruct the fighting withdrawal of Wainwright's Northern Luzon Force — the 11th and 91st Filipino Divisions alongside American tank units — from 24 December 1941 through New Year's Day 1942, the desperate rearguard actions that kept the door open for Parker's Southern Luzon Force to reach Bataan. Parshall brings his usual operational precision, and at nearly 100 minutes this is the kind of granular, day-by-day tactical narrative the early Pacific War rarely gets. The Philippine campaign before the fall is chronically under-covered; this fills a real gap.