Using journals, letters, historical documents - including testimony from war crimes tribunals, and the accounts of survivors, Hornfischer has crafted an account of human valor so riveting it is vital to remember that every single word is true.

 Ship of ghosts : the story of the USS Houston,  FDR’s legendary lost cruiser,  and
the epic saga of her survivors  James D. Hornfischer  New York : Bantam Books,  
c 2006  0553803905 Houston (Cruiser : CA-30),   Java Sea,  Battle of the,  
Indonesia,  1942,   World War,  1939-1945 , Naval operations,  American
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"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  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.

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