GHOST SOLDIERS The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Doubleday, 2001

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Anno di pubblicazione

2001

Autore

Sides, Hampton

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Doubleday

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Military & Army Warfare & Defence World War II

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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

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Hardcover ISBN 0385495641

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Light shelfwear to book and DJ. ; 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. ; 342 pages