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The Epic Account Of World War Ii's Greatest Rescue Mission
Anchor
May 2002
On Sale: May 7, 2002
384 pages
ISBN: 038549565X
EAN: 9780385495653
Kindle: B000FBJCJ4
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Non-Fiction History
On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped
behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March
thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a
hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous
Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese
soldiers elsewhere in the Philippines made the stakes
impossibly high and left little time to plan the complex
operation. In Ghost Soldiers Hampton Sides vividly re-creates this
daring raid, offering a minute-by-minute narration that
unfolds alongside intimate portraits of the prisoners and
their lives in the camp. Sides shows how the POWs banded
together to survive, defying the Japanese authorities even
as they endured starvation, tropical diseases, and torture.
Harrowing, poignant, and inspiring, Ghost Soldiers is the
mesmerizing story of a remarkable mission. It is also a
testament to the human spirit, an account of enormous
bravery and self-sacrifice amid the most trying conditions.
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