The Liberation of Manila: 28 Days of Carnage, February-March 1945 - Paperbackby John A. del Gallego (Author) During the early months of World War II, Winston Churchill maneuvered to get the U. S. involved in the war to save his country from German invasion. Roosevelt, scheming to lure Hitler into a casus belli, ensnared Japan instead, resulting in the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War that followed. When the doomed U. S. garrison in the Philippines soon capitulated to the Japanese, the atrocities inflicted on the