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Genre/Form: | History Military history |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Sides, Hampton. Ghost soldiers. New York : Doubleday, 2001 (OCoLC)606527308 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hampton Sides |
ISBN: | 0385495641 9780385495646 038549565X 9780385495653 |
OCLC Number: | 45835493 |
Notes: | Maps of Route of death march and Ranger raid on Cabanatuan on end pages. |
Awards: | Short-listed for Iowa High School Book Award 2006 Winner of Discover Great New Writers (Nonfiction) 2001 |
Description: | 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm |
Responsibility: | Hampton Sides. |
More information: |
Abstract:
This book is a tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: march thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent three years in a surreally hellish camp near the city of Cabanatuan. The prisoners included the last survivors of the Bataan Death March left in the camp, and their extraordinary will to live might soon count for nothing -- elsewhere in the Philippines, the Japanese Army had already executed American prisoners as it retreated from the advancing U.S. Army. As the Rangers stealthily moved through enemy-occupied territory, they learned that Cabanatuan had become a major transshipment point for the Japanese retreat, and instead of facing the few dozen prison guards, they could possibly confront as many as 8,000 battle-hardened enemy troops. - Jacket flap.
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