Wetterhorn
05-07-2004, 09:47 PM
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton Sides
Narrative history at it's best! This book will make you feel that you are living next to the characters. Hampton Sides has given us a tale of a little known heroic rescue of POWs. Sides allows the reader to see both the pain of the prisoners and the ingenuity and perserverance of the rescurers. He also shows the extreme inhumanity the Japanese inflicted on the prisoners.
If you are looking for an exciting, suspenseful read that is historically accurate, this is your book!
:u
Narrative history at it's best! This book will make you feel that you are living next to the characters. Hampton Sides has given us a tale of a little known heroic rescue of POWs. Sides allows the reader to see both the pain of the prisoners and the ingenuity and perserverance of the rescurers. He also shows the extreme inhumanity the Japanese inflicted on the prisoners.
If you are looking for an exciting, suspenseful read that is historically accurate, this is your book!
:u