Ghost Soldiers
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission is a non-fiction book, written by Hampton Sides. It is about the World War II Allied prison camp raid at Cabanatuan in the Philippines. It was first published in 2001.
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In late January 1945, 121 Ranger volunteers set out to perform a daring rescue of over 500 Allied prisoners of war in a Japanese camp near the Philippine city of Cabanatuan. The prisoners, remnants of the Bataan Death March, have lived in deplorable conditions for three years, suffering from starvation, horrendous tropical diseases, and abuse by sadistic Japanese soldiers. Ghost Soldiers recounts the story of the prisoners, the Ranger unit performing the raid, and the Filipino guerrillas who provided courageous assistance. A massacre of American soldiers at Palawan alerts U.S. commanders to the very real danger of mass POW executions as the Japanese retreat from the Philippines. As a consequence, they urgently plan and execute the dangerous mission to rescue the POWs from Cabanatuan prison camp. Ghost Soldiers provides informative historical background to the events leading to the raid, detailed accounts of camp conditions and the prisoner's heroic will to survive, and the planning and successful execution of the rescue.
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