Ship of ghosts the story of the USS Houston, FDR's legendary lost cruiser, and the epic saga of her survivors /

Describes the loss of the cruiser U.S.S. Houston during the early days of World War II in the Pacific and the fate of the warship's surviving crew, who were captured by the Japanese and forced to work as slaves on Japan's brutal Burma-Thailand Death Railway.

Main Author: Hornfischer, James D.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Bantam Books, 2006.
Physical Description: 530 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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