The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea: The Forgotten War of the South Pacific

The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific

✍ Campbell, James 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Broadway 🌐 English ⚖ 275 KB

### From Publishers Weekly Author Campbell (The Final Frontiersman) retraces the steps of the U.S. Army's 32nd Infantry Division, and its harrowing fight to capture Buna, New Guinea from the Japanese, in this grunt's-eye-view of one harrowing WWII mission. The 32nd was a National Guard Division tha

The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific

✍ Campbell, James 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Broadway 🌐 English ⚖ 678 KB

### From Publishers Weekly Author Campbell (The Final Frontiersman) retraces the steps of the U.S. Army's 32nd Infantry Division, and its harrowing fight to capture Buna, New Guinea from the Japanese, in this grunt's-eye-view of one harrowing WWII mission. The 32nd was a National Guard Division tha

The Ghost Mountain boys: their epic march and the terrifying battle for New Guinea-- the forgotten war of the South Pacific

✍ James E. Campbell 📂 Fiction 📅 2007;2008 🏛 Crown Publishers;Three Rivers Publishers 🌐 English ⚖ 292 KB 👁 1 views

Lying due north of Australia, New Guinea is among the world's largest islands. In 1942, when World War II exploded onto its shores, it was an inhospitable, cursorily mapped, disease-ridden land of dense jungle, towering mountain peaks, deep valleys, and fetid swamps. Coveted by the Japanese for its