Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

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.

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0553803905 9780553803907

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Houston (Cruiser : CA-30)


Java Sea, Battle of the, Indonesia, 1942.
World War--Naval operations, American.--1939-1945

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