Sides, Hampton.
Ghost soldiers : the forgotten epic story of World War II's most dramatic mission / Hampton Sides. - 1st ed. - New York : Doubleday, 2001. - 342 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm
Maps of Route of death march and Ranger raid on Cabanatuan on end pages.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
0385495641 9780385495646 038549565X 9780385495653
2001017337
United States. Army. Ranger Battalion, 6th --History.
United States.--History.
Geschichte 1945
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Philippines--Cabanatuan.
World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Philippines--Cabanatuan.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
Pazifikkrieg
Amerikanischer Kriegsgefangener
Britischer Kriegsgefangener
Befreiung
Feldzug
Cabanatuan (Philippines)--History, Military--20th century.
D767.4 / .S54 2001
940.5425 Sid 15
Ghost soldiers : the forgotten epic story of World War II's most dramatic mission / Hampton Sides. - 1st ed. - New York : Doubleday, 2001. - 342 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm
Maps of Route of death march and Ranger raid on Cabanatuan on end pages.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
0385495641 9780385495646 038549565X 9780385495653
2001017337
United States. Army. Ranger Battalion, 6th --History.
United States.--History.
Geschichte 1945
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Philippines--Cabanatuan.
World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Philippines--Cabanatuan.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
Pazifikkrieg
Amerikanischer Kriegsgefangener
Britischer Kriegsgefangener
Befreiung
Feldzug
Cabanatuan (Philippines)--History, Military--20th century.
D767.4 / .S54 2001
940.5425 Sid 15