Ghost Soldiers

Name: Ghost Soldiers
Brand: Vintage
SKU: 9780385495653-PRUSDTR-US
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The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

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Edition: US - Paperback / softback

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English • Age Adult - Adult

384 pages • 5.11 x 7.97 x 0.79 in

Approx. weight: 0.79 lb

Publication date: 07 May,2002

Barcode: 9780385495653 • Vintage

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By: Hampton Sides

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “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—from the author of Blood and Thunder.

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.