Ghost Soldiers

1. Ghost Soldiers, written by Hampton Sides, is 334 pages long.

2. The book Ghost soldiers is a non-fictional account.

3. (a) The purpose of the book is to provide the reader an accounting of the events, from those who survived and participated, in the liberation of POWs from the Philippines in WWII. It provides an account from the initial surrender of American forces to the Japanese, the march to the POW camps, living at the camps and the eventual rescue of the POWs from the Japanese who had made the decision to execute all POWs.
(b) The audience in this non-fictional account that is intended for readers that would be interested in History, Military, World War II, Asia Pacific theatre of WWII, Philippines, Rescue Operations.

4. Mr. Sides begins his book with the grizzly details of the execution of POWs by the Japanese and the escape of some of the prisoners which established the sense of urgency for a daring rescue. The author then takes us through the circumstances that ...