The release date for the English version of 'Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission' by
Hampton Sides is May 2002. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
In the Philippines, on January 28, 1945, 121 carefully chosen American soldiers managed to get past enemy defenses. Their task: march thirty difficult kilometers to free 513 prisoners of war, including the last surviving members of the historic Bataan Death March, who were imprisoned in a horrific camp. The stakes were very high since Japanese forces had just massacred prisoners somewhere else in the Philippines, leaving little time to prepare for the intricate operation.
Hampton Sides masterfully recreates this audacious attack in Ghost Soldiers, providing a minute-by-minute narrative that coincides with personal accounts of the detainees and their camp life. In spite of malnutrition, tropical illnesses, and torture, the POWs bonded together to survive and disobeyed the Japanese authority, as seen in Sides. Ghost Soldiers is a gripping account of an extraordinary expedition that is at once heartbreaking, sad, and inspirational. It is also a story of great courage and selflessness in the face of extreme adversity, and a monument to the human spirit.