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Ghost soldiers : the forgotten epic story of World War II's most dramatic mission
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Ghost soldiers : the forgotten epic story of World War II's most dramatic mission

Verfasser/in: Hampton Sides
Verlag: New York : Doubleday, 2001.
Ausgabe/Format  Buch : Englisch : 1st edAlle Ausgaben und Formate anzeigen
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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  Weiterlesen…
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Physikalisches Format Online version:
Sides, Hampton.
Ghost soldiers.
New York : Doubleday, 2001
(OCoLC)606527308
Medientyp: Internetquelle
Dokumenttyp: Buch, Internet-Ressource
Alle Autoren: Hampton Sides
ISBN: 0385495641 9780385495646 038549565X 9780385495653
OCLC-Nummer: 45835493
Anmerkungen: Maps of Route of death march and Ranger raid on Cabanatuan on end pages.
Beschreibung: 342 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., col. maps ; 25 cm.
Verfasserangabe: Hampton Sides.
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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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von manriquc (Veröffentlicht von WorldCat-Nutzern/innen 2012-02-01) Ausgezeichnet Permalink

An unbelievably well written account of the Bataan Death March during WWII and the heroic actions of the 6th Army Rangers sent to rescue 500 POW's.  One of the most touching books of bravery I've ever read. A MUST READ!!

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