Hornfischer, James D.
Ship of ghosts : the story of the USS Houston, FDR's legendary lost cruiser, and the epic saga of her survivors / James D. Hornfischer. - New York : Bantam Books, 2006. - 530 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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.
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.
93302
0553803905 9780553803907
2006047530
Houston (Cruiser : CA-30)
Java Sea, Battle of the, Indonesia, 1942.
World War--Naval operations, American.--1939-1945
940.542598 Hor 15
Ship of ghosts : the story of the USS Houston, FDR's legendary lost cruiser, and the epic saga of her survivors / James D. Hornfischer. - New York : Bantam Books, 2006. - 530 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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.
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.
93302
0553803905 9780553803907
2006047530
Houston (Cruiser : CA-30)
Java Sea, Battle of the, Indonesia, 1942.
World War--Naval operations, American.--1939-1945
940.542598 Hor 15