Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of her Survivors
The author of the audiobook blockbuster, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, brings to vivid life an untold tale of World War II in the Pacific. The cruiser USS Houston was lost in the Dutch East Indies during the Pacific War's dark early days. Her cryptic final radio message on the night of...
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The author of the audiobook blockbuster, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, brings to vivid life an untold tale of World War II in the Pacific. The cruiser USS Houston was lost in the Dutch East Indies during the Pacific War's dark early days. Her cryptic final radio message on the night of February 28, 1942 gave no inkling to the odds she had faced. Her survivors were captured and made slaves on Japan's notorious Burma-Thailand Death Railway. James Hornfischer sheds new light on this highly dramatic ordeal.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780553384505 (0553384503)
ASIN: 553384503
Publish date: August 28th 2007
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 544
Edition language: English
Reads like Band of Brothers. Sounds like "the horror...the horror."All the pieces are here: the finely crafted storytelling with intentionally-though-seamlessly placed details all fitting together and falling into place so that you hardly notice the author's hand, as you should not. You should be fo...
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