from cpg

I was listening to "Weekend Edition" on NPR and heard an interesting interview with Hampton Sides, the author of this book about a raid by U.S. Army Rangers and Philippine guerrillas to free Allied POWs from a Japanese prison camp in the waning days of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. ...

from untraveller

Excellent read! Again, as I say in nearly all books that require maps, make better maps! Otherwise, this book is highly readable. I'm not a WWII historian by any means, so this fills in another of the blanks in my spectrum of knowledge regarding the War in the Pacific. Very readable and extremely...

from bcquinnsmom

Not being a WWII expert, I can't really say yay or nay on the "most dramatic mission" claim on this book's title, but I got so caught up in this book I read the whole thing in one afternoon. The basic outline is this: The US has decided that it's time for the Army to take Manila from the Japanese...

from IslandDave

Ghost Soldiers is an outstanding and fast-paced account of the Raid at Cabanatuan, Philippines during WWII. This raid, conducted by 6th Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts, and local Philippine guerilla forces attempted to rescue hundreds of American and other Allied soldiers held in the prison camp. Many...

from marshapetry

Great story, excellent narrator for audiobook. The only drawback is that it jumps between internal stories: the rescuers, the camps, various side stories of POWs etc... which made it hard to listen to in the car. So while it was a great story about the rescue of POWs at Kabanatwan (spelling?) it ...