Book Discussion - Ghost Mountain Boys by Jesse Campbell

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  Dates & times
  • Thu, 12/11/2014 - 6:30pm
  Age Groups Adults
  Location Napoleon

 

This book is nonfiction. From the book:

A harrowing portrait of a largely forgotten campain that pushed one battalion to the limits of human suffering.

Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division's "Ghost Mountain Boys" were assigned the most grueling mission of the entire Pacific campain in World War II: to march over the 10,000-foot Owen Stanley Mountains to protect the right flank of the Australian army during the battle for New Guinea. Reminiscent of the classics like Band of Brothers and The Things They Carried, The Ghost Mountain Boys 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. Theirs is one of the great untold stories of the war.