Ghost Soldiers

by Hampton Sides

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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. 

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.

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  • ISBN10 1400033403
  • ISBN13 9781400033409
  • Publish Date 17 September 2002 (first published 1 January 2001)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Anchor Books
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 245
  • Language English