The Ghost Mountain Boys
Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific
A harrowing portrait of a largely forgotten campaign that pushed one battalion to the limits of human suffering.Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division's Ghost Mountain Boys” were assigned the most grueling mission of the entire Pacific campaign in World War II: to march over the 10,000-foot Owen Stanley Mountains to protect the right flank of the Australian army during the battle for New Guinea. Reminiscent of the classics like Band of Brothers and The Things They Carried, The Ghost Mountain Boys is part war diary, part extreme-adventure tale, and—through letters, journals, and interviews—part biography of a group of men who…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-33597-5
- EAN: 9780307335975
- Produktnummer: 19441551
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
Über den Autor
JAMES CAMPBELL mounted an expedition to New Guinea to retrace the route of the Ghost Mountain Boys and discovered a wilderness almost unchanged in more than sixty years. He is the author of The Final Frontiersman and has written for Outside magazine as well as many other publications.
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