Hampton Sides' "Ghost Soldiers": An Epic Tale of WWII's Most Heroic Rescue Mission

Kindle Customer Ken: The story of the Bataan death march survivors who were imprisoned, tortured, and heroically rescued.
The army newly formed rangers in coordination with Filipino militias rescued the survivors precisely as planned.
A wonderful read if you can stomach the violence.

United States on Oct 04, 2023

karl lindauer: well written. Compelling. Hard to put down.

United States on Oct 04, 2023

Mary Jones: Anyone who loves to read USA history and gives special interest in our wars should dive into this one. The author put us right in the middle of the concentration camps and you feel the starvation, sickness and despair our mighty soldiers would face every day. This was a great page turner!!

United States on Sep 25, 2023

Graeme C.: A morbid story of prison camp life under the Japanese in a prison camp. A good story of the bold rescue and escape. A lot of facts of the Pacific skirmish of WWII.

United States on Sep 22, 2023

Blu: Scintillating, riveting, eloquent. Fascinating depiction of the dangerous +500 POW rescue mission, accompanied in advance by the Alamo Scouts to provide critical intelligence, flanked by the intrepid Filipino guerrillas, in conjunction with, the indomitable Rangers and pet monkey "Keezel." Interwoven throughout, are the detailed orchestrated plans/maneuvers for staging the liberation, with contrasting vignettes from individual prisoners of daily routines amidst horrific conditions. A compelling charismatic juxtaposition between HOPE versus DESPAIR. An engrossing expose worthy of one's valuable time, expense, energy.

United States on Aug 16, 2023

Bruce Ogilvie: Very well written but a tad graphic in places, but true to form. If you want some insight into lesser known parts of WW2 POWs this could be the book for you.

Canada on Mar 01, 2022

Ed Robinson: Really heart wrenching..uplifting at the same time

Canada on Jan 23, 2022

Pradyuman: It's a good book. in the beginning it gets confusing, especially if you are not tracking dates.

But overall, a good write-up on Pacific war. Worth reading

India on Oct 23, 2019

Amazon Customer: Nice to read this history, my relatives is in this story.

Canada on Jul 29, 2018

Chas: An awesome account of just one small episode of the war between the U.S. and Japan during WW2. It is probably the best written true story account of a single WW2 action I have ever read! It documents of how a relatively small group of U.S. Military Rangers, in spite of great enemy odds against them, captured an entire P.O.W. camp and rescued over 600 U.S. and allied personnell. And they did it with a bare minimum of casualties to themselves or to those being rescued while inflicting huge losses on the enemy! The story also gives full credit to those of the local population who assisted the rescuers in their mission as well as to those rescued! It should be a must read by everyone as it recounts the best of mankind in a time when mankind was at its worse! I guarantee, read the first paragraph and you'll not put the book down until you've read the last sentence of the last paragraph of the book! Yes, it is written that inspiring and that good! To the few soldiers who willingly paid the supreme price in this heroic effort I say, "Greater love hath no man than he who lays down his life for his friends!" God bless them one and all, rescuers and rescued!

Canada on Mar 05, 2013