kickerdad - , reviewed on 3/23/2012 + 123 more book reviews

An incredible book! Hesitant to begin, but once I did, I was thoroughly engrossed. Hampton Sides paints an incredible portait of the horrors of the Bataan Death March and its POW survivors rescue near the end of World War II without being overly dramatic. Well researched (I assume, history is not one of my strong suits), the experiences of soliders en masse as well as individual tales are recounted in an extremely articulate, sensitive fashion. Mr. Sides writing style is crisp, vivid, and direct, with little wasted effort in the sharing of this incredible snapshot of history. In the end, "Ghost Soldiers" was hopeful, even motivating. At the very end of the "boomer" generation, I, like so many others like me, have paid little attention to World War II history other than the basics we were taught in school, but I will be looking to read, learn more soon.

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