The Washington Post, May 27th, 2001
GHOST SOLDIERS The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission By Hampton Sides Doubleday. 342 pp. $24.95 Early in 1945, as American troops landed on Luzon, 513 prisoners of war, mostly survivors of the infamous Bataan death march, remained in the miserable Cabanatuan camp northeast of Manila. In 1942 there had been 12,000. Many had died of malnutrition and maltreatment; others had been transferred to smaller camps in the Philippines or -- if somehow still able-bodied -- hauled to Japan for slave labor on the docks or in the mines. (Although Hampton Sides fails to mention the...
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