Ghost Soldiers

By: Hampton Sides

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Paperback | 18 August 2005 | Edition Number 1

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352 Pages

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The rescue of over 500 American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines in 1945 was the largest and most successful operation of its kind. Based on personal accounts from the survivors, this is an epic story now told in full for the first time.

On a parched evening in the Philippines 53 years ago, 511 American POWs were saved from almost certain death. A force of elite US troops from the Sixth Ranger Battalion slipped 30 miles behind enemy lines and marched for three days through jungle and peat swamps. They stormed the camp at dusk, killing over 250 Japanese soldiers, rounded up the dazed prisoners and led them out of the gate. With bullets and mortars whining past, the Rangers hauled the prisoners across the Pampanga river and led them down a network of secret paths, past an 8000-man-strong phalanx of Japanese troops. A guerilla force of a few hundred men ambushed the Japanese, destroying a series of bridges along the river, holding off the enemy long enough for the POWs to escape.

The raid on Cabanatuan, a mission of mercy, remains the largest and most successful operation of its kind ever undertaken by the US army. GHOST SOLDIERS is narrative history at its best.

Industry Reviews

An enthralling, deeply disturbing look at the horrors of war. It is impossible to read without wondering uneasily how you, the reader, would respond if forced to undergo the monstrous trials described with such immediacy by Hampton Sides - Jon Krakauer, author of INTO THIN AIR

A dazzling account of one of the greatest rescue missions in history - Iris Chang, author of THE RAPE OF NANKING

Read the first ten pages of this moving book and you will be hooked by a riveting tale of courage and heroism. In GHOST SOLDIERS Hampton Sides brings to life a forgotten adventure of World War II. - James Bradley, author of FLAGS FOR OUR FATHERS

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