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Ship of Ghosts

"Son, we're going to Hell."<br><br>The navigator of the USS <i>Houston</i> confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend. Renowned as FDR's favorite warship, the cruiser USS <i>Houston</i> was a prize target trapped in the far Pacific after Pearl Harbor. Without hope of reinforcement, her crew faced a superior Japanese force ruthlessly committed to total conquest. It wasn't a fair fight, but the men of the Houston would wage it to the death.<br><br>Hornfischer brings to life the awesome terror of nighttime naval battles that turned decks into strobe-lit slaughterhouses, the deadly rain of fire from Japanese bombers, and the almost superhuman effort of the crew as they miraculously escaped disaster again and again–until their luck ran out during a daring action in Sunda Strait. There, hopelessly outnumbered, the <i>Houston</i> was finally sunk and its survivors taken prisoner. For more than three years their fate would be a mystery to families waiting at home.<br><br>In the brutal privation of jungle POW camps dubiously immortalized in such films as <i>The Bridge on the River Kwai</i>, the war continued for the men of the <i>Houston</i>—a life-and-death struggle to survive forced labor, starvation, disease, and psychological torture. Here is the gritty, unvarnished story of the infamous Burma–Thailand Death Railway glamorized by Hollywood, but which in reality mercilessly reduced men to little more than animals, who fought back against their dehumanization with dignity, ingenuity, sabotage, will–power—and the undying faith that their country would prevail.<br><br>Using journals and letters, rare historical documents, including testimony from postwar Japanese war crimes tribunals, and the eyewitness accounts of <i>Houston</i>'s survivors, James Hornfischer has crafted an account of human valor so riveting and awe-inspiring, it's easy to forget that every single word is true.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
 

  Autore: Hornfischer James D.  
  Editore: Bantam Dell Pub Group  
  Isbn: 0553384503  
  EAN : 9780553384505  
  Data pub. 28 Aug 07  
  Collana: Bantam Dell Pub Group (Paperback)  
  Classificazione:HISTORY  
  Pagine: 530  
  Prezzo: € 19,60  







 
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