Ship of Ghosts
The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors
New York : Bantam Books, 2006.
Format: Ebook
Description: 530 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Describes the loss of the cruiser U.S.S. Houston during the early days of World War II in the Pacific and the fate of the warship's surviving crew, who were captured by the Japanese and forced to work as slaves on Japan's brutal Burma-Thailand Death Railway.
Contents:
On Asia Station -- A bloodstained sea -- The emperor's guests -- In the jungle of the Kwai -- Rendezvous with freedom -- Men of the USS Houston (CA-30) and the lost battalion killed in action or died in captivity, 1942-1945.
Subjects:
Houston (Cruiser : CA-30)
Java Sea, Battle of the, Indonesia, 1942.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American.
Houston (Cruiser : CA-30)
Java Sea, Battle of the, Indonesia, 1942.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American.
ISBN:
9780307490889 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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Ebook
Electronic resource.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [437]-458).
Electronic reproduction. New York : Bantam Books, 2009. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 7441 KB).
Includes bibliographical references (pages [437]-458).
Electronic reproduction. New York : Bantam Books, 2009. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 7441 KB).