In this national bestseller, Sides renders a tense, powerful, grand Account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II: the Rescue of American and British POWs behind enemy lines in the Philippines.
It is also a testament to the human spirit, an Account of enormous bravery and self-sacrifice amid the most trying conditions..
Harrowing, poignant, and inspiring, Ghost Soldiers is the mesmerizing story of a remarkable mission.
Sides shows how the POWs banded together to survive, defying the Japanese authorities even as they endured starvation, tropical diseases, and torture.
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.
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.
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. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines.
On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.
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The Greatest World War II story never told ( Esquire )--an enthralling Account of the heroic Mission to Rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March. 2 maps. of photos.
In this national bestseller, Sides renders a tense, powerful, grand Account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II: the Rescue of American and British POWs behind enemy lines in the Philippines
