Great book

dwesson445 · August 22, 2001, 09:31 PM

All

I apologize if this topic has been discussed already.

If you have the chance, read "Ghost Soldiers". There's an article about it in this month's "Esquire" I think. It describes a rescue mission of US POW's held by the Japanese in the Phillipines at the end of the war.

It reads very much like "Blackhawk Down" to me, and is done very well. It would make a great movie, except we'd never get Hollywood to accurately portray the treatment of POW's by the Japanese. It's amazing how quickly you can turn into the most viciously rabid racist reading it. It's hard to make yourself realize that the same thing is being done all the time, whether it's Rwanda, or Kosovo, or Thailand, or Uganda.... Very depressing.

However, the heroism of these guys is just incredible. I'll never feel the same way about Memorial Day.

**4V50 Gary** · August 23, 2001, 06:52 PM

Read it. There's another book specifically about the Alamo Scouts who were involved in that rescue operation. As I've loaned it out, I can't tell you who the author is. For further reading on the raid to liberate out POWs from the Japanese, William Bruer's "The Great Raid on Cabanatuan" also covers this same topic.

August 22, 2001, 09:31 PM	#1
dwesson445 Senior Member Join Date: June 20, 2001 Posts: 224	Great book All I apologize if this topic has been discussed already. If you have the chance, read "Ghost Soldiers". There's an article about it in this month's "Esquire" I think. It describes a rescue mission of US POW's held by the Japanese in the Phillipines at the end of the war. It reads very much like "Blackhawk Down" to me, and is done very well. It would make a great movie, except we'd never get Hollywood to accurately portray the treatment of POW's by the Japanese. It's amazing how quickly you can turn into the most viciously rabid racist reading it. It's hard to make yourself realize that the same thing is being done all the time, whether it's Rwanda, or Kosovo, or Thailand, or Uganda.... Very depressing. However, the heroism of these guys is just incredible. I'll never feel the same way about Memorial Day.

August 23, 2001, 06:52 PM	#2
4V50 Gary Staff Join Date: November 2, 1998 Location: California Posts: 13,263	Read it. There's another book specifically about the Alamo Scouts who were involved in that rescue operation. As I've loaned it out, I can't tell you who the author is. For further reading on the raid to liberate out POWs from the Japanese, William Bruer's "The Great Raid on Cabanatuan" also covers this same topic. __________________ Vigilantibus et non dormientibus jura subveniunt. *Molon Labe!*