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Indlæser... Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (udgave 2002)af Hampton Sides
Work InformationGhost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission af Hampton Sides
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Well-written, breath-holding, stomach-churning, laughs, and tears fill the pages of [Ghost Soldiers] by Hampton Sides. It is the story of just over 100 soldiers, including members of the 6th Rangers, trekked through the rice paddies and fields to free the 513 POWs at the Cabanatuan Camp in the Philippines with little time to plan and no time to spare before the prisoners would be put to death by the departing Japanese. The book combines moment by moment movements of the rescuers, events transpiring in the camp, and individual cameos of the people involved - Japanese and American, prisoner and liberators. This book tells of the relatively unknown heroic rescue by US Army Rangers of Allied prisoners of the Japanese in the Philippines during WWII. The author covers not only the rescue itself, but also related information, such as the surreptitious provision of much-needed supplies needed to offset the brutally negligent treatment of the prisoners. The perspective alternates between the prisoners and the rescuers, at first jumping forward and backward by several years, which may be off-putting to some readers. I thought it was informative, but it was difficult for me to read about the atrocities, which were described in graphic detail. I had read In the Kingdom of Ice by this author, which was outstanding, so I think that l may have had unrealistic expectations for this one. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML: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. 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 No library descriptions found. |
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As you read, you become acquainted with many of the individuals whose lives were irrevocably changed during this time.
Sides tells what is known not only of the POW's, Rangers, and Philippine scouts, but also of some of the Japanese involved, and (for me) he tells the story of a woman I had never heard of- a woman who had the. code name of Side Pockets. Claire Fisher was an American living in Manilla when the Japanese took over. Through a series of events described in the book she became a life saving espionage agent who not only passed information she got from the Japanese to the Americans, but also was able to secret lifesaving food and drugs to the camp for the benefit of the POW's.
This book is a must read for anyone with any interest at all in the Pacific Theater WWII experience. I don't see it as just a story of this one episode but as an overview of what the fighters in the Pacific Theater were against. ( )