On January 16, 1942, the battered, exhausted men of the 26th U.S. Cavalry, of the Army's Philippine Scouts, climbed astride their horses. They flung themselves moments later against the blazing gun muzzles of Japanese tanks. It was the last mounted charge in America's annals and proved the climax of the 26th Cavalry's magnificent but doomed horseback campaign against the Imperial Japanese Army during the fall of the Philippines in 1941-1942.
Through recently declassified and unpublished documents, journals, diaries, interviews with dozens of the men who rode and fought in the last stand of the U.S. Cavalry, and an array of other firsthand sources, 'The Twilight Riders' presents the full saga of the 26th for the first time, bringing the story to vivid and unforgettable life.
