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Ship of Ghosts audiobook
- By: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrator: Marc Cashman
- Category: History, Military, Naval
- Length: 17 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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Ship of Ghosts Audiobook Summary
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Son, we’re going to Hell.”
The navigator of the USS Houston confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend. Renowned as FDR’s favorite warship, the cruiser USS Houston was a prize target trapped in the far Pacific after Pearl Harbor. Without hope of reinforcement, her crew faced a superior Japanese force ruthlessly committed to total conquest. It wasn’t a fair fight, but the men of the Houston would wage it to the death.
Hornfischer brings to life the awesome terror of nighttime naval battles that turned decks into strobe-lit slaughterhouses, the deadly rain of fire from Japanese bombers, and the almost superhuman effort of the crew as they miraculously escaped disaster again and again–until their luck ran out during a daring action in Sunda Strait. There, hopelessly outnumbered, the Houston was finally sunk and its survivors taken prisoner. For more than three years their fate would be a mystery to families waiting at home.
In the brutal privation of jungle POW camps dubiously immortalized in such films as The Bridge on the River Kwai, the war continued for the men of the Houston—a life-and-death struggle to survive forced labor, starvation, disease, and psychological torture. Here is the gritty, unvarnished story of the infamous Burma–Thailand Death Railway glamorized by Hollywood, but which in reality mercilessly reduced men to little more than animals, who fought back against their dehumanization with dignity, ingenuity, sabotage, will–power—and the undying faith that their country would prevail.
Using journals and letters, rare historical documents, including testimony from postwar Japanese war crimes tribunals, and the eyewitness accounts of Houston’s survivors, James Hornfischer has crafted an account of human valor so riveting and awe-inspiring, it’s easy to forget that every single word is true.
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Ship of Ghosts Full Details
| Narrator | Marc Cashman |
| Length | 17 hours 30 minutes |
| Author | James D. Hornfischer |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781415931349 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Ship of Ghosts is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: military history, nanval history, world war ii, american history, us world war ii history, non-fiction, history, naval, us navy, war, wwii, history books, nonfiction books, culture, society, non fiction, social studies, history book, historical, non fiction history books, books about history, non fiction books, historic, historic event, nonfiction, reference, fathers day gifts, world war two, dad gifts, ww2, ships, ghost ship, military, world war 2, biography, world history, european history, biographies, navy, military books, History, Military, Naval, History, Military, World War II, Biography & Autobiography, Military The BISAC Subject Code is History, Military, Naval
Additional info
The publisher of the Ship of Ghosts is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781415931349.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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