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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from James D. Hornfischer's Neptune's Inferno. "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 glamorized by Hollywood, but 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. Using journals and letters, rare historical documents, including testimony from postwar Japanese war crimes tribunals, and the eyewitness accounts of Houston’s survivors, James Hornfischer has crafted an account of human valor so riveting and awe-inspiring, it’s easy to forget that every single word is true.

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“Ship of Ghosts” is an altogether fascinating book about what happened to the American heavy cruiser USS Houston and its crew during World War II in the Pacific. Written by naval historian James D. Hornfischer, this book tells the story of how the ship and its crew met their tragic fate at the Battle of Sunda Strait in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in 1942.On March 1, 1942, USS Houston and the HMAS Perth, an Australian cruiser, were operating in the Sunda Strait near the island of Java. An armada of Japanese warships discovered the pair of Allied cruisers and attacked them. During a severe and lengthy firefight, the vastly outnumbered and outgunned Houston and Perth put up a gallant resistance, but both cruisers ultimately sank. (Houston’s commanding officer, Captain Albert H. Rooks, would posthumously receive the Medal of Honor for his conspicuous gallantry during this battle.) Of the 1,100 crewmembers aboard Houston at the time of its sinking, only about 400 survived. Those survivors, most of whom suffered severe burns and wounds and were covered with their ship’s thick bunker oil, tried to swim to shore and escape being captured by the Japanese. However, most of them ended up as Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) working as slave laborers on a railroad line then being built by the Japanese between Ban Pong, Thailand and Thanbyuzayat, Burma. (This was the infamous “Death Railway” depicted in the 1957 film “The Bridge on the River Kwai.”)With his powerfully eloquent and straightforward prose, Hornfischer recounts the beatings, starvation, and torture, and other atrocities that the POWs received daily at the hands of their Japanese tormentors, and the tremendous courage each prisoner demonstrated in the face of such inhuman savagery. Much of Hornfischer’s work is based on interviews with many of the crewmembers who were still alive at the time he was writing the book.“Ship of Ghosts” is one of James D. Hornfischer’s earlier works of naval history, and it is one of his best. He masterfully tells the story of USS Houston and its crew with great power and compassion. I found the book so engrossing that I finished reading its 500-plus pages in only three days. “Ship of Ghosts” is a superb book that easily earns my highest recommendation.

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