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THE GHOST MOUNTAIN BOYS New Guinea Battle 32nd Div. Livre audio CD guerre Seconde Guerre mondiale NEUF

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Type
Audiobook
Length
Unabridged
Subject
History
Features
9-DISC CD AUDIOBOOK - UNABRIDGED - NEW
MPN
9781600244667
ISBN
9781400105762
Publication Year
2007
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Book Title
Ghost Mountain Boys : Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea---The Forgotten War of the South Pacific
Author
James Campbell
Publisher
Tantor Media, Incorporated
Genre
History
Topic
Military / World War II, Military / General, General, WORLD

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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 strategic position, New Guinea became the site of one of the South Pacific's most savage campaigns. Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division's Ghost Mountain Boys were assigned the most grueling mission of the entire Pacific campaign: to march 130 miles over the rugged Owen Stanley Mountains and to protect the right flank of the Australian army as they fought to push the Japanese back to the village of Buna on New Guinea's north coast. Comprised of National Guardsmen from Michigan and Wisconsin, reserve officers, and draftees from across the country, the 32nd Division lacked more than training-they were without even the basics necessary for survival. The men were not issued the specialized clothing that later became standard issue for soldiers fighting in the South Pacific; they fought in hastily dyed combat fatigues that bled in the intense humidity and left them with festering sores. They waded through brush and vines without the aid of machetes. They did not have insect repellent. Without waterproof containers, their matches were useless, and the quinine and vitamin pills they carried, as well as salt and chlorination tablets, crumbled in their pockets. Exhausted and pushed to the brink of human endurance, the Ghost Mountain Boys fell victim to malnutrition and disease. Forty-two days after they set out, they arrived two miles south of Buna, nearly shattered by the experience. Arrival in Buna provided no respite. The 32nd Division was ordered to launch an immediate assault on the Japanese position. After two months of furious-sometimes hand-to-hand-combat, the decimated division finally achieved victory. The ferocity of the struggle for Buna was summed up in Time magazine on December 28, 1942, three weeks before the Japanese army was defeated: "Nowhere in the world today are American soldiers engaged in fighting so desperate, so merciless, so bitter, or so bloody." Reminiscent of classics like Band of Brothers and The Things They Carried, this harrowing portrait of a largely overlooked campaign is part war diary, part extreme adventure tale, and-through letters, journals, and interviews-part biography of a group of men who fought to survive in an environment every bit as fierce as the enemy they faced.

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Publisher
Tantor Media, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1400105765
ISBN-13
9781400105762
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14038534772

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Book Title
Ghost Mountain Boys : Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea---The Forgotten War of the South Pacific
Author
James Campbell
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Military / General, General, WORLD
Publication Year
2007
Genre
History

Dimensions

Item Length
5.3in.
Item Height
1.1in.
Item Width
6.4in.
Item Weight
8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Number of Volumes
9 Vols.
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
Reviews
"Stephen Hoye gives a solid reading to Campbell's account of the battle for New Guinea in the southwest Pacific." ---AudioFile
Copyright Date
2007
Target Audience
Trade
Narrated by
Hoye, Stephen
Dewey Decimal
940.54/2653
Dewey Edition
22

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