Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II’s Most Dramatic Mission
Author: Hampton Sides
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 c….Read More
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